Ottocar

The jocose ruffians here enliven the scene -- one by being cast into a dungeon for asking _Ottocar_ (evidently the Colburn of his day), an exorbitant price for the copyright of a certain manuscript; the other, by calling the courtier a man of genius, and being taken into his service, as no doubt, "first robber."

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_Ottocar_ is introduced amongst other friends to a "speaking spirit," who, being personated by Miss Terrey, utters a terrible prediction.

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_Ottocar_ accuses _Ida_ of infidelity with _Wilhelm_ to the duke; she, in explanation, fulfils the presentiment we had some delicacy in hinting too soon -- that she is the wife of the man who was killed in the prologue; _Rudolph_ having married her in ignorance of that fact, and by a coincidence which, though intensely melo-dramatic, every body foresees who has ever been three times to the Adelphi theatre.

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A young huntsman, Max, is in love with Agathe, 'daughter of Cuno, the chief-ranger of Prince Ottocar of Bohemia.

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_Ottocar_ has one already preserved in the castle dungeons, in the person of a dumb prisoner.

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It is related in the Rhymed Chronicle of Ottocar, how he had been kept alive for a whole year by the skill of his physicians, but that they told him at last, as he sat playing at draughts, that death was upon him, and that he could live but five days.

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We next learn that _Rudolph_ is seated upon his ducal throne, fortunate in the possession of a paragon-wife, and a steward of the household not to be equalled -- no other than _Ottocar_ -- that particular friend, who, in the prologue, tried to get a finis put to his mortal career.

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They have, we learn, been lately commissioned by _Ottocar_ to murder _Rudolph_, the exiled Duke of Hapsburgh, who is to pass that way; but he does not come, because his kind kinsman, _Ottocar_, must have time to consult the god-fathers and god-mothers of the piece, or "Witches of the Rhine;" which he does in the "storm-reft hut of Zabaren."

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She was the daughter of Ottocar, King of Bohemia and Constance of Hungary, a relative of St. Elizabeth.

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In Austria, he confirmed Ottocar, the son of King Wenzel, as duke, in 1252, and mediated between him and King Béla of Hungary in 1254.

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