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In those lusty ages when the Kaisers lifted high the golden goblet of Aachen, and drank, elbow upward, the green-eyed wine of old romance, there lived, a bow-shot from the bones of the Eleven Thousand Virgins and the Three Holy Kings, a prosperous Rhinelander, by name Gottlieb Groschen, or, as it was sometimes ennobled, Gottlieb von Groschen; than whom no wealthier merchant bartered for the glory of his ancient mother- city, nor more honoured burgess swallowed impartially red juice and white under the shadow of his own fig-tree.
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Aunt Lisbeth, Schwartz Thier, Henker Rothhals, Kaiser Heinrich, Father Gregory, Gottlieb Groschen, Master Groschen, Dietrich Schill, Monk Gregory, Mistress Margarita, Three Holy Kings, Frau Farina, Frau Lisbeth, Pfalzgraf Nase
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