Cut away, cut away, For I did curse them When, O Buljuk Pasha, They trembled on the gun. Go now and tell them, Tell your companions That, O heiduk, I have pricked out your eyes. Prick away, prick away, For I did curse them When, O Buljuk Pasha, They failed along the gun. Go now and tell them, Tell your companions That, O heiduk, I have hacked off your head. Hack away, hack away, For I did curse it When, O Buljuk Pasha, It compassed not your end. II. O Mechmed,[23] my beloved son, Have you come wounded back to me? Where is your pipe and your heiduk garb? --Ask me not, ask me not. Ask me rather where are my comrades. With six hundred I went to the mountains-- Six of them live and brought me hither, Brought me though themselves were wounded. A little time and I must die,-- Call everyone of those I love, For I would take my leave of them. When all were come young Mechmed said: Mother, how long will you mourn for me? --Till I step down to you in darkness. Father, how long will you mourn for me? --Till the raven's wing is white And I see grapes on the willow-tree. Sisters, how long will you mourn for me? --Till we have babes to sing asleep. How long will you mourn, my beloved? --Till I go down among the flowers And bring a nosegay back for him. The Turk had thrown aside any toleration he started with. The Patriarchate of Peć, which they had for a time left intact, was now abolished and was not again permitted until 1557, when its re-establishment was due to the efforts of Mehemet Sokolović, the grand vizier from Bosnia, who raised to the Patriarchate his brother the monk Macarius. Every school in Serbia and Bulgaria was closed, so that no teaching could be given anywhere save in the monasteries; it is said to be a fact--I have it from Dr. Zmejanović, lately Bishop of Veršac--that when Kara George, the beloved and illiterate heiduk, made his first insurrection, there were, in addition to the monks, precisely eight individuals in Serbia--their names are recorded--who could read and write. Thus the absence of printing-presses was not greatly felt: in Bulgaria there was now no press at all, in Serbia a few prayer-books were roughly printed in the monasteries; but in the sixteenth century the monks, for the copying of these books, had reverted to the use of pen and ink.