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COPENHAGEN-.
Chap. IX.
you burgomaster of Amsterdam”—a fine promotion,
remarks Hvitfeldt in his chronicle.
What became of her none can say—she disappears
entirely from the face of history; but when Frederic I.
besieged the city of Malmø, he excepted Sigbrit from
the general pardon conferred on the inhabitants, in case
she should be still there. -He might have saved himself
the trouble, for she had long since escaped, and no one
could tell of her whereabouts.
To the left runs the Østergade—the Bond-street of
Copenhagen; but we will leave it to its flaneurs and
continue our course, first starting with astonishment at
a well-known sound whispered in our ears, very like
“Old clo,” “Gammel klæder:” it is shortened and
compressed, till it resembles the well-known cry of our
London dealers in discarded vestments.
It was in this Høibroplads that Christian II. received
his early education, and an odd one it was and curious
as displaying the simplicity of the times.
At an early age a canon of Copenhagen, John
Hyndze, was appointed his tutor, and the prince himself
was sent to lodge in the house of Hans the bookbinder,
whose wife, Bridget, a worthy old soul, looked after his
health and personal comforts, and here he was visited by
the canon daily.
“A strange education for a king’s son,” observes
Hvitfeldt, “and very different from that of our day,
when nothing can be found good enough for the
offspring of royal parents.”
It appears the young prince played about with the
other boys of his age in the streets; so to keep him out
of mischief the canon made him accompany him to
matins and evensong, and there he stood in the choir,
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