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Luther's view of the matter was much less complimentary. He said of the legate, "He knows no more about the Word than a donkey knows of harp-playing." In the next year, 1519, a discussion took place at Leipzig, between Luther on the one hand, aided by his friends Melanchthon and Carlstadt, and a zealous and talented ecclesiastic, Dr. Eck, on the other.
The knockers return, and those who shove them away return too; everywhere the litigious crowd murmurs round; and follows him at evening, when he goes to supper, or gets its matters settled by the officers of the court, who have to stay there till bed- time. His taste in music is severe. No water-organs, flute-player, lyrist, cymbal or harp-playing woman is allowed.
He taught him the use of lance and sword and scutcheon and bow, and how to cast stone quoits and to leap wide dykes also: and he taught him to hate every lie and felony and to keep his given word; and he taught him the various kinds of song and harp-playing, and the hunters craft; and when the child rode among the young squires you would have said that he and his horse and his armour were all one thing.
A woman stands at the great wool-wheel, one arm extended, the other holding the thread, her head thrown back to take in all the scope of her occupation; or if it is the lesser spinning-wheel for flax and it was this that Sylvia moved forwards to-night the pretty sound of the buzzing, whirring motion, the attitude of the spinner, foot and hand alike engaged in the business the bunch of gay coloured ribbon that ties the bundle of flax on the rock all make it into a picturesque piece of domestic business that may rival harp-playing any day for the amount of softness and grace which it calls out.
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