SERIES C

THE MARENGO CAMPAIGN, 1800

LETTERS OF THE FIRST CONSUL BONAPARTE TO HIS WIFE

3rd Outlaw."By the bare scalp of Robin Hood's fat friar,
This fellow were a king for our wild faction!
1st Outlaw."We'll have him; sirs, a word.
Speed."Master, be one of them,
It is an honourable kind of thievery."

The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act iv., Scene I.