[120] At the canonization of a saint, the _Devil_ was heard by
_attorney_, in the shape of objections to the act. Jean Paul,
with a slight variation of the sense of the old title, hints a
converse process in Roquairol's case, making the better angel
show cause why sentence of _damnation_ should not be absolutely
pronounced against him.--TR.
[121] Here began Jean Paul's second volume of the Titan.--TR.
[122] Ottar of Roses.--TR.
[123] The above description of Roquairol reminds one of a German
_Sinn-spruch_ on sensuality, from the Persian:--
"Make his reason serve his passions,
That is what man never should;
_To the Devil's kitchen, angels_
_Never carry wood_."
[124] Simon's Christian Antiquities. Mursinna, &c., p. 143.
[125] Branch candlestick.--TR.
[126] Schlendrians,--of a slow fellow,--corresponding to our _old
fogy_.--TR.
[127] Or Black-book.--TR.
[128] Allusion to the mode of angling for frogs with a bit of red
cloth.
[129] Spazier-sitzerinnen,--not _gängerinnen_, i. e.
street-walkers.--TR.
[130] _Zwinger_ means, originally, the narrow space between
town-walls and town.--TR.
[131] Literally, press something before his brow.--TR.
[132] Overseer, a Lacedæmonian officer.--TR.
[133] Strangers who are frozen are placed by the monks, unburied,
beside each other, each leaning on the next one's breast.
[134] Linda de Romeiro.