You and your French are wetted hens (POULES MOUILLEES),'-- cowering about like drenched hens in a day of set rain.

'As I hear nothing of either of you, I must try to get out of this business without your help;'"-- otherwise it will be ill for me indeed! [Excerpted Fragment of a Letter from Friedrich,--( exact date not given, date of EXCERPT is, Donanworth Country, 23d September, 1744),--which the French Agent in Seckendorf's Army had a reading of (_Campagnes de Coigny,_ iv.

185-187; ib.

216-219: cited in Adelung, iv.
225).] "Which latter expression alarmed the French, and set them upon writing and bustling, but not upon doing anything." "Prince Karl had crossed the Rhine unmolested, in the clearest moonlight, August 23d-24th; Seckendorf was not wholly got to Heilbronn, September 8th: a pretty way behind Prince Karl! The 6,000 Hessians, formerly in English pay, indignant Landgraf Wilhelm [who never could forgive that Machiavellian conduct of Carteret at Hanau, never till he found out what it really was] has, this year, put into French pay.

And they have now joined Seckendorf; [Espagnac, ii.