in accordance with his own wishes. As, by order of the gods, the cultivation of land had become the vocation of youth, he, without delay, harnessed the bulls, and put them to the plough. The first essay succeeded to his wishes: the bulls possessed so much strength and spirit, that they turned up more land in one day than twelve yoke of oxen could manage; for they were swift and vigorous as the bull which is represented in the calendar as springing from the clouds in the month of April, and not sluggish and lazy as the ox mentioned in the gospel.
Duke Czech, who had led his people into Bohemia, was long since among the departed, and his descendants inherited neither his dignity nor principality. The grandees, it is true, assembled to make a new choice; but their fierce and violent dispositions prevented them from coming to any sensible resolution. Egotism and vanity turned the Bohemian assembly of states into a Polish diet, for as too many hands grasped at the purple cloak, it was torn to pieces, and none obtained it. The government became anarchical; every one did as he liked the strong oppressed the weak, the rich the poor, and the great the little. There was no personal security in the country. Still