The Pied Piper of Hamelin
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Having achieved this miracle, the deserving Capuchin returned and demanded his money. However, the unthankful townspeople refused to pay. In their need the inhabitants turned to the Bishop of Worms, hoping that through his prayers and blessings the plague might be overcome. The bishop advised them to form a procession through the fields while beseeching God to overcome the plague. This they did.
Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day(London: Smith, Elder, 1887; Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1887). Wherein all plunged and perished!’ The rats are now suffering which suggests how the villagers have suffered too. The second moral appears in the penultimate stanza: "Heaven's gate/Opens to the rich at an easy rate/As the needle's eye takes a camel in!" A paraphrase of the Biblical verse that makes wealth and holiness mutually exclusive, this poem suggests that concerns with worldly goods – money and power – will pollute a person. Notice that, even before the Mayor and Corporation betray the Piper, their concern for the town does not flare up until the public threatens rebellion. Those who hired the Piper were solely concerned with material life, and their decisions ended up costing the entire town its happiness. Equally fast the yellow dwarf raised his fife, and mice by the millions followed its sound. They all advanced to Tannenberg Mountain, which opened up, and when it closed again, there was no trace of either the dwarf or the mice. Glurns is a village in South Tyrol, Italy, a region with historic and linguistic connections to Austria. The Italian name is Glorenza.
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
The following year came with a horde of mice, as though they had rained down from heaven. Plagued anew, the peasants penitently prayed once again and sorrowfully passed through their fields. When the procession reached the lake a little dwarf suddenly appeared in their midst.
Ratcatcher. The Grimms' "Children of Hameln" as retold by Charles Marelle. Source: Andrew Lang, The Red Fairy Book (London and New York: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1890), pp. 208-14. Red Cotton Night-Cap Country; or, Turf and Towers(London: Smith, Elder, 1873; Boston: Osgood, 1873). Source (JSTOR): Eliza Gutch, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," Folklore, vol. 3, no. 2 (June 1892), pp. 238-39. Books.google.com: Otto Henne-Am Rhyn, Die deutsche Volkssage: Beitrag zur vergleichenden Mythologie (Leipzig: Verlag von Joh. Wilh. Krüger, 1874), p. 91.. The Agreement being made, he befan to play on his Pipes, and all the Rats and Mice followed him to a great Lough hard by, where they all perished; so the Town was infected no more.Robert Browning and Julia Wedgwood: A Broken Friendship as Revealed in Their Letters, edited by Richard Curle (London: Murray & Cape, 1937). Bells and Pomegranates. No. V.--A Blot in the 'Scutcheon: A Tragedy in Five Acts(London: Moxon, 1843); edited by W. Rolfe and H. Hersey (New York: Harper, 1887). Dearest Isa: Browning's Letters to Isa Blagden, edited by Edward C. McAleer (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1951). In memorie whereof it was then ordained, that from thence-foorth no Drumme, Pipe or other instrument, should be sounded in the street leading to the gate through which they passed; nor no Osterie to be there holden. And it was also established, that from that time forward in all publike writings that should bee made in that towne, after the date therein set downe of the yeare of our Lord, the date of the yeare of the going foorth of their children should bee added, the which they have accordingly ever since continued. And this great wonder hapned on the 22. day of July in the yeare of our Lord, 1376. Consonance: It is the repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to each other in a sentence or line of poetry. An example of consonance is in line 23: “‘Tis clear, cried they, our Mayor’s a noddy” where the repeated “d” sound creates a consonant effect.
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