Quand vous vous chaufferez les pieds à vos chenets, Tournant le dos aux jours de guerres et d'alarmes, Si l'on vous dit, songeant à tous vos grands faits d'armes Qui remplirent longtemps la terre de terreur Mais où donc avez-vous quitté votre empereur? Vous répondrez, baissant les yeux vers la muraille: Nous nous sommes enfuis le jour d'une bataille,

Nolo vos ignorare, fratres, de dormientibus, ut non contristenuni, sicut qui spem non habent,' which means, 'I do not wish you to ignore, brethren, that which concerns those who sleep, that you may not be saddened, like those who have lost all hope.'

Citizens I can at once wave away with a regretful nescio vos; foot-officers are decently reserved in their thirst for knowledge of an essentially Secret Service; but officers' wives I was growing to like the Royal Gapshire Cyclists (H.D.), my neighbours in the next field, until last Friday, when they perpetrated their Grand Athletic Tournament.

Qui respondet Si vultis me super vos, sicut et iuris mei est, imperare,

"Otez vous vos souliers et vos bas?