Excerpt from The Manuscripts of Erdély, Vol. 3 of 3: A Romance

"Anne ego terrigenas potius mirabor in ipsis
Procubuisse satis, vitæ quibus attulit idem
Principium finemque dies, quam cæsa Getarum
Agmina, quos tantis aluit Bellona tropoeis,
Totaque sub galeis Mavortia canuit aætas?" De Bello Getico.

"It is the duty of him that holds the standard to die upon the place." - South.

"They linger yet
Avengers of their native land." Gray.

The object of the regent of Hungary in professing to accept the crown, tendered to him by the envoy of King Ferdinand, even at the time, he meditated inflicting a most signal chastisement on the imperial force, under the Marquis Piadena, will be explained in the sequel. It may suffice in this place to observe, that Martinuzzi was not of a disposition patiently to endure dictation, because the conduct prescribed, happened to concur with his own views. He foresaw, clearly, that in the event of the city of Coloswar falling, and Ferdinand's obtaining forcible possession of the regalia, but one of two alternatives would be left open to him.

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