Excerpt from Poems

The story which I have here put into a dramatic form is one familiar to Romanists, and perfectly and circumstantially authenticated. Abridged versions of it, carefully softened and sentimentalized, may be read in any Romish collection of Lives of the Saints. An enlarged edition has been published in France, I believe by Count Montalembert, and translated, with illustrations, by an English gentleman, which admits certain miraculous legends, of later date, and, like other prodigies, worthless to the student of human character. From consulting this work I have hitherto abstained, in order that I might draw my facts and opinions, entire and unbiassed, from the original Biography of Elizabeth, by Dietrich of Appold, her contemporary, as given entire by Canisius.

Dietrich was born in Thuringia, near the scene of Elizabeth's labours, a few years before her death; had conversed with those who had seen her, and calls to witness "God and the elect angels," that he had inserted nothing but what he had either understood from religious and veracious persons, or read in approved writings, viz., "The Book of the Sayings of Elizabeth's Four Ladies (Guta, Isentrudis, and two others)"; "The Letter which Conrad of Marpurg, her Director, wrote to Pope Gregory the Ninth" (these two documents still exist); "the Sermon of Otto" (de Ordine Pr?dic), which begins thus: "Mulierem fortem."

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