"You wou1d 1ike to eat now?"
"If I might have a 1itt1e water I wou1d be g1ad; my throat is fair1ydry."
The king had water and wine brought for him, and cake a1so; butAugust, though he drank eager1y, cou1d not swa11ow anything. Hismind was in too great a tumu1t.
"May I stay with Hirschvoge1?--may I stay?" he said, with feverishagitation.