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Chap. xxiv: WHY AND IN WHAT FASHION SIMPLICISSIMUS LEFT THE WORLD AGAIN

    The first part of the chapter is a fair translation, extending to
many pages, of Quevara's somewhat trite reflections on the vanity of a
worldly life.  It is taken from Albertini's translation of a book called
"Of the burden and annoyance of a courtier's life."  8vo. Amberg, 1599. 
The only part of the chapter which concerns the story is as follows.
    All these words I pondered carefully and with continual thought, and
they so pierced my heart that I left the world again and became a hermit.
 Fain would I have dwelt by my spring in the Muckenloch, but the peasants
that dwelt near would not suffer it, though it had been for me a
wilderness to my taste; for they feared I should reveal the spring and so
move their lord to force them to make highways and byways thither,
especially now that peace was secured.  So I betook myself to another
wilderness and began again my old life in the Spessart; but whether I
shall, like my father of blessed memory, persevere therein to the end, I
know not.  God grant us all His grace that we may all alike obtain from
Him what doth concern us most, namely, a happy

                                                                         
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