When hit cometh in my thoht Of this worldes joie, how hit goth al to noht. Now hit is, ant now hit nys, it is not. Also hit ner nere y-wys, That moni mon seith soth hit ys,[10] Al goth bote Godes wille, Alle we shule deye, thah us like ylle.

The news of Napoleon's defeat at Leipsic (October 1813) arrived just after that of the re-occupation of Belgrade by the Turks, damped feu-de-joie which they were firing at Constantinople, and made them rather more conciliatory and lenient to the Serbian rebels.