The quotation is also attributed to Froissart: see Notes and Queries, 3rd s., vol. 10 (4 August 1866), p. 99, and 5th s., vol. 10 (17 August 1878), p. 136; William Hazlitt, "Merry England", in The New Monthly Magazine, vol. 14, no. 60 (1825), p. 558—ils se rejouissoient tristement selon la coutume de leur pays.https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Maximilien_de_B%C3%A9thune