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Then they shouted in return, that he must hasten to land, for the Stargardians were upon them, and had killed all their horses. "Strike them dead, then; kill all, and himself the last, but he would go over and help them."
And even the honourable councillors waxed merry at the sight; and as the hangman pushed him from the ladder, they cried out, "So will the Stargardians do to Stramehl!" Now Otto heard tidings of all these doings, but he feared to complain to his Highness the Duke, because he himself had begun the quarrel, and they had only retorted as was fair.
Item, he did not dare to stop the boats upon the Jena for he knew that although Duke Barnim was usually of a soft and placable temper, yet when he was roused there was no more dangerous enemy. And if the Stargardians leagued with him, they might fall upon his town of Stramehl, as they had done once before.
John's rung forth merry peals, and all the people of the town ran forth to meet them; but when they saw the knight a prisoner, and his empty scabbard hanging by his side, they clapped their hands and huzzaed, shouting, "So fell the Stargardians upon Stramehl."
So he jumped into the boat with his companions, but had not time to set foot on shore, when the Stargardians, horse and foot, with the burgomaster at their head, dashed forth from the wood, shouting, "So fall the Stargardians upon Stramehl!"
Here it was vain to follow him, for night was coming on fast; so he pursued his path in safety, and returned to his master at Stramehl. Therefore this apprentice must be given up to him, that he might have him broken on the wheel, otherwise their vassals on the Jena should suffer in such a sort, that the Stargardians would long have reason to remember Otto Bork."
"My good lords and dear friends, ye know how that the Stargard knaves joined with the Pomeranian Duke to ravage my good town of Stramehl, so that it can be only called a village now. And it is also not unknown to you that my disgrace then passed into a proverb, so that people will still say, 'He fell upon me as the Stargardians upon Stramehl. Let us, then, revenge ourselves to-day.
No one, however, came to save the knight; for the Stargardians were slaying right and left, and Otto's followers were utterly discomfited. So the knight tried to draw his dagger, and having got hold of it, plunged it with great force into the heart of the ferocious animal, who fell back dead, and Otto sprang to his feet.
Of the quarrel between Otto Bork and the Stargardians, which caused him to demand the dues upon the Jena. MOST EMINENT AND ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCE! Your Grace must be informed, that much of what I have here set down, in this second book, was communicated to me by that same old Uckermann of Dalow of whom I have spoken already in my first volume.
This very day he would insist on being paid the dues." Ille. "That meant, that he purposed to break the peace of our lord the Emperor. Let him think well of it. It might cost him dear." Hic. "That was his care. The Stargardians should not a second time hang his arms on the gallows." Ille. "It was a simple act of retaliation; had he not read, 'An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth'?" Hic.
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