Describe the Pied Piper’s first appearance when he stepped into the street to blow his pipe
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This fellow forsooth offered the townse - men for a certaine somme of money to rid the towne of all the rats that were in it ( for at that time the Burgers were with that vermine greatly annoyed The accord in fine being made the pide Piper with a shrill pipe went piping through the streets , and forthwith the rats came all running out of the houses in great numbers after him ; all which hee led into the river of Weaser and therein drowned them . This done , and no one rat more perceived to bee left in the towne ; he afterward came to demand his reward according to his bargaine , but being told that the bargain was not made with him in good earnest , to wit , with an opinion that ever he could bee able to doe such a feat they cared not what they accorded unto , when they imagined it could never bee deserved , and so never to be demanded : but neverthelesse seeing he had done such an unlikely thing indeed , they were content to give him a good reward ; and so offered him farre lesse then he lookt for ; but hee therewith discontented , said he would have his full recompence according to his bargain , but they utterly denying to give it him , he threatened them with revenge ; they bade him doe his worst , whereupon he betakes him againe tohis pipe , and going through the streets as before , was followed of a number of boyes out at one of the gates of the Citie , and comming to a little hill , there opened in the side thereof a wid hole , into the which himselfe & all the children being in number one hundreth and thirtie , did enter ; and being entred , the hill closed up againe , and became as before . A boy that being lame and came somewhat lagging behind the rest , seeing this that hapned , returned presently backe and told what he had seene , foorthwith began great lamentation among the Parents for their children and men were sent out with all diligence , both by land and by water to inquire if ought could be heard of them , but with all the enquirie they could possibly use , nothing more then is aforesaid could of them be understood . In memorie whereof it was then ordained , that from thence - foorth no Drumme , Pipe or other instrument , should be sounded in the street leading to the gate through which they passed ; nor no Osterie to be there holden . And it was also establishedthat from that time forward in all publike writings that should bee made in that towne , after the date therein set downe of the yeare of our Lord , the date of the yeare of the going foorth of their children should bee added , the which they have accordingly ever since continued . And this great wonder hapned on the 22. day of July in the yeare of our Lord , 1376 . The occasion now why this matter came unto my remembrance in speaking of Translvania , was , for that some do report that there are divers found among the Saxons in Translvania that have like surnames unto divers of the Burgers of Hamel , and will therby seeme to inferre that this Jugler or pide Piper , might by negromancy have transported them thither , but this carrieth litle appearence of truth ; because it would have beene almost as great a wonder unto the Saxon of Transilvania to have had so many strange children brought among them , they knew not how , as it was to those of Hamel to lose them : and they could not but have kept memorie of so strange a thing , if indeed any such thing had there hapned .
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