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THE
MARVELLOUS ADVENTURES
AND RARE CONCEITS OF
MASTER OWLGLASS.
Folly Governeth the World
THE
 MARVELLOUS ADVENTURES
 AND
 RARE CONCEITS
 OF
 Master Tyll Owlglass.
 
 Newly collected, chronicled and set forth, in our English tongue,
By KENNETH R. H. MACKENZIE,
FELLOW OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES.
And Adorned with many most Diverting and Cunning Devices,
By ALFRED CROWQUILL.
LONDON:
TRÜBNER & CO. 60, PATERNOSTER ROW.
1860.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY WERTHEIMER AND CO.
CIRCUS PLACE, FINSBURY CIRCUS.
AM GANZEN RHEINE AUF UND AB
DER MENSCHEN GEDÄCHTNISS IST SEIN GRAB.
WHERE’ER THE WAVE OF RHINE DOTH LAVE.
MAN’S MEMORY IS STILL HIS GRAVE.
Fischart, p. 179.
ix
PREFACE.
“Wit, an’t be thy will, put me into good fooling! Thosewits that think they have thee do very oft prove fools; and Ithat am sure I lack thee, may pass for a wise man: For whatsays Quinapalus? Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.”
Clown in “Twelfth Night,” Act I., Scene 5.
Among the folkbooks of the German nation, notone has obtained so general a circulation as thatnow presented in an English form. It has been deemedworthy, as by the Appendix may be perceived, of beingtranslated into French, Dutch, Danish, Polish, nay, evenHebrew, and honoured by being reprinted on everykind of paper, good and bad. A favourite amongthe young for its amusing and quaint adventures, and astudy among those who strive, by the diligent comparisonof different eras of national literature, to arrive at adue appreciation of national character, Eulenspiegel, orOwlglass the boor (peasant), possesses a peculiar valuefor the old. I well remember how, as a very little child,I first made the friendship of the lit                        
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