high-flown titles, as in Philipp von Zesen's _Pleasure of Spring_,
and _Poetic Valley of Roses and Lilies_.

'Up, my thoughts, be glad of heart, in this joyous pleasant March;
ah! see spring is reviving, earth opens her treasury,' etc.

His romances were more noteworthy if not more interesting. He
certainly aimed high, striving for simplicity and clearness of
expressions in opposition to the Silesian poets, and hating foreign
words.

His feeling for Nature was clear; he loved to take his reader into
the garden, and was enthusiastic about cool shady walks, beds of
tulips, birds' songs, and echoes. Idyllic pastoral life was the
fashion--people of distinction gave themselves up to country life and
wore shepherd costume--and he introduced a pastoral episode into his
romance, _Die adriatische Rosemund._[15]

Rosemund, whose father places arbitrary conditions in the way of her
marriage with Markhold, becomes a shepherdess.

Not far off was a delightful spot where limes and alders made
shade on hot summer days for the shepherds and shepherdesses who
dwelt around. The shady trees, the meadows, and the streams which
ran round it, and through it, made it look beautiful ... the
celestial Rosemund had taken up her abode in a little shepherd
hut on the slope of a little hill by a water-course, and shaded
by some lime trees, in which the birds paid her homage morning
and evening.... Such a place and such solitude refreshed the more
than human Rosemund, and in such peace she was able to unravel