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Rh When his Majesty The Emperor to his courageous armies Presented in the person of Duke Friedland A most experienc'd and renown'd commander, He did it in glad hope and confidence To give thereby to the fortune of the war A rapid and auspicious change. The onset Was favourable to his royal wishes. Bohemia was deliver'd from the Saxons, The Swede's career of conquest check'd! These lands Began to draw breath freely, as Duke Friedland From all the streams of Germany forc'd hither The scatter'd armies of the enemy, Hither invok'd as round one magic circle The Rhinegrave, Bernhard, Banner, Oxenstirn, Yea, and the never-conquer'd King himself; Here finally, before the eye of Nürnberg, The fearful game of battle to decide.

May't please you, to the point.

In Nürnberg's camp the Swedish monarch left His fame—in Lützen's plains his life. But who Stood not astounded, when victorious Friedland After this day of triumph, this proud day, March'd toward Bohemia with the speed of flight, And vanish'd from the theatre of war; While the young Weimar hero forc'd his way Into Franconia, to the Danube, like Rh