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Chap. IX.
EDUCATION OF CHRISTIAN II.
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he the heir to three mighty kingdoms, along with the
poor children. When it came to King John’s ears
that his son stood and sang in the choir with others
as a “ fattig Pebling,” he waxed wroth, and a short time
later the prince is handed over to a new tutor, furnished
by his brother-in-law, Joachim of Brandenburg, who
terms him “ a beautiful learned man.” The boy would
climb up to the roofs of the houses and over the
highest walls. In vain his tutor bade him “ take care;
he who climbs the highest will fall the lowest.” He
replied, “Low places only suit low people, but high
places are for the high.” When he was eighteen
years of age the prince declared himself quite sick of
learning, and we find him “bribing the palace guard”
to leave open doors at night, whilst, like our own Prince
Hal, he went knocking about in the burghers’ houses,
wherever he could find “ the best wine and the prettiest
girls to talk to.” When this came to his father’s ears,
he summoned the young scapegrace before him, and
administered him such a dose of good advice, followed
up by a severe flogging with whips, that the prince fell
down “paa bare knæ,” and, imploring pardon for his
offences, declared himself reformed for ever.
But we approach the Slotsholm or “ Ile du Chateau.”
On either side of the bridge the fishwives hold their
court, and gossip and squabble, much like their
sisterhood of other lands. The boats crowd up to the very
bridge, some laden with sand, some with salmon fresh
from the coast of Sweden, the former an untidy
commodity to sell so near a royal residence; others again
with pottery, common pottery for household use,
from the island of Bornholm, the darker kind the
produce of Jutland. Two little children, satchel on
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