described the Dutch as a nation of shopkeepers and Napoleon merely borrowed and adapted the phrase.
[5] "With the Rederijkern," Longfellow adds, "Hood's amusing 'Nocturnal Sketch' would have been a Driedobbelsteert, or a poem with three tails;-- Even is come; and from the dark park, hark, The signal of the setting sun, one gun! And six is sounding from the chime, prime time To go and see the Drury-Lane Dane slain.
Anon Night comes, and with her wings brings things Such as with his poetic tongue Young sung.".