_Eulenspiegel or Howleglas_ (Vol. vii., p. 357.).--The following extract
from my note-book may be of use:
"The German Rogue, or the Life and Merry Adventures, Cheats,
Stratagems, and Contrivances of Tiel Eulenspiegle.
'Let none Eulenspiegle's artifices blame,
For Rogues of every country are the same.'
London, printed in the year MDCCIX. The only copy of this edition I
ever saw was one which had formerly belonged to Ritson, and which I
purchased of Thomas Rodd, but afterwards relinquished to my old
friend Mr. Douce."
This copy, therefore, is no doubt now in the Bodleian. I have never
heard of any other.
While on the subject of Eulenspiegel, I would call your correspondent's
attention to some curious remarks on the Protestant and Romanist
versions of it in the _Quarterly Review_, vol. xxi. p. 108.
I may also take this opportunity of informing him that a very cleverly
illustrated edition of it was published by Scheible of Stuttgart in
1838, and that a passage in the _Hettlingischen Sassenchronik_
(Caspar Abel's Sammlung, p. 185.), written in 1455, goes to prove that
Dyll Ulnspiegel, as the wag is styled in the Augsburgh edition of 1540,
is no imaginary personage, inasmuch as under the date of 1350 the
chronicler tells of a very grievous pestilence which raged through the
whole world, and that "dosulfest sterff Ulenspeygel to Möllen."
I am unable to answer the Query respecting Murner's visit to England.
The most complete account of his life and writings is, I believe, that
prefixed by Scheible to his edition of Murner's _Narrenbeschwörung_, and
his satirical dissertation _Ob der König von England ein Lügner sey,
oder der Luther_.