Note 8 — THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH.[1]
Reading edition
"Napoleon hummed the well-known air, Malbrook s'en va-t-en guerre, when he crossed the Niemen to commence the Russian campaign. The French nurses used to frighten their children with stories of Marlbrook!—as the Orientals, when their horses start, say they see the shadow of Richard Cœur-de-Lion crossing their path."—Pref., iv. v.