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 Voigt, Pelzel, and Prochazka, give abundant details of the activity and literary temper of this period. Optst and Gzel published a grammar in 1533, which served to fix the bohemian orthography. Simon Lomnicky von Budeč, the only laureate of the bohemians, must not be passed over. His versification is harsh, though not without comic and satirical talent. He wrote songs continually for more than forty years, and produced, as may well be supposed, a countless number.

The two following anonymous poems probably belong to the sixteenth or seventeenth century.

the judge's court

We fix the horses in their stall,

And ask a gift from all.