of which he could have made yet further conquests--And defeated all his foes.--But the king continued to revile his countrymen--To injure them whenever he could." A lengthy account of the grievances of various great Bohemian nobles against King Ottokar follows. The writer closes the chapter dealing with that king by these words: "When, therefore, the king had need of the Bohemians--He did not receive willing aid from them--They left him when he required them.--When the king saw that he could not rely on them in the hour of need--As they would not forget their sufferings and the evil (which they had endured)--The king said: 'When I return from the wars--I will inflict much evil on the Bohemians--I will thus stain the Petrin[18] with their blood--That no Bohemian will any longer be seen on the bridge of Prague.--Truly he could no longer wish to live.'--When he spake such words publicly.--Few Bohemians did he take with him--He marched with Germans, made them his own--Zavis[19] and his brother were with Rudolph--This was very harmful to the Bohemian king--For he (Zavis) knew the strength of his forces--And had friends in his army--When at daybreak they were preparing for battle--Zavis sent a message to the king, saying--That if he were gracious to him--He would be willing to render him service.--The king would not hear of the proposal and advanced--Saying, 'Rather than that I did this, I would let myself be killed.'--Then the king with his Germans rushed into battle against Rudolph--And alas! he fell there--This misfortune occurred on the day of St. Rufus, a Friday--(That holy martyr's day is a great festival)--It was in the year since the birth of the Son of God--One Thousand Two Hundred and Seventy-eight." Dalimil's chronicle, as already noted, enjoyed great popularity in Bohemia for many years, in fact, up to the sixteenth century, when Hajek's chronicle took its place. In consequence of this popularity the chronicle found continuators, and several of the manuscripts contain additions that are obviously by a different writer. Shorter tales relating warlike events in a manner and metre similar to _Dalimil_ also vouch for the popularity of the chronicle. Such are the tales of _William of Zajic_, _Ottokar and Zavis_, and _The Death of King John_, the most interesting one to English readers.