noon
The happy pair lived in the enjoyment of unchanging love , according to the fashion of that time , when the instinct which unites hearts was as firm and durable as the cement and mortar which renders the walls of the old world so firm and indestructible . Duke Premislas now became one of the most doughty knights of his age , and the Bohemian court one of the most brilliant in Germany . A large number of knights and nobles , as well as a great concourse of common people gradually assembled from all parts of the territory . The consequence was , that the court-city became too narrow for the inhabitants , and therefore Libussa called her people in office to her , and ordered them to build a city on the spot where they should find a man who knew how to make the wisest use of teeth at noon . They went out and found at the appointed time a man who was busied in sawing a block asunder . They decided that this industrious person made an incomparably better use of the teeth of his saw at noon than the parasite made of the teeth in his jaws at the table of the great , and they did not doubt that they had found the place which the princess had appointed for the foundation of the new city . They therefore drew the ploughshare round the field to mark the compass of the city wall .