Several other poems in the same sense, and dating from about the same time--the end of the year 1619--have been preserved. The battle of the White Mountain, in the following year, produced an immediate change in the views of the unscrupulous time-server Lomnický. He celebrated the executions at Prague on June 21st, 1621, in a ballad, of which I shall quote a few lines. The song begins thus:-- "_An evil beginning almost always has an evil end:_ _He that writes this song knows that this is no lie._ _Ill began the Calvinists, ill ended the Estates,_ _Rebels all._ _Yes, they roused up the whole world from vain pride, from wickedness;_ _They conspired together against his Highness_ (i.e. _Ferdinand_). _Having a king, their lord, already lawfully chosen_ _And crowned,_ _They yet chose another for themselves, one of their band,_[71] _Who was of the Calvinist faith, of that blind community;_ _They wanted to have superiority in everything, to be lords and freemen,_ _To insult the others._" After this not very veracious account of the origin of the Bohemian troubles, Lomnický refers to the details of the executions. He writes:-- "_Every one received punishment according to his offence._ _He also did not remain without torment who had sinned with his tongue,_[72] _And, as the right demands, who had committed greater offence_ _Had severer punishment._ _Some were exiled for ever from the country;_ _Others in prison still hope for mercy;_ _Others, again, have been whipped: it is the fault of the rebels_ _That this happens._ _O most mournful spectacle! many were amazed,_ _Many a heart fainted, many shook from horror,_ _For there is no record that there ever occurred before_ _So great woe._ _Twelve heads were placed on the bridge-gate,_ _That it might be proclaimed to every corner of the world_ _Who were the rebels, the wretched "directors,_"[73] _The cause of all evil._ _The remains of those who were quartered were placed at the crossways in the streets;_ _The hands of some were chopped off, having those fingers_ _Which had sworn falsely, which had been raised_ _To promise faith._" The song ends thus:-- "_O Jesus, we pray to Thee, listen to our voices._ _Grant to us that we may shortly behold our beloved sovereign (Ferdinand II.)._ _And, rejoicing with him, together praise and honour you,_ _Glorify you for ever._ _This story will be the wonder of the whole world,_ _And wherever the news reaches it will displease the evil-minded,_ _For no one before ever heard or read in the chronicles_ _That the devil's pride was so greatly humiliated._ _Many, many people then perished in a short time;_ _Their day was ended, they came to the term of their life._ _O God! from a similar evil end_ _Deign to preserve us all._"