they had been slate or iron. Rank and file, nobody quitted his
rank, nobody looked sour in the face; they took the pouring of the
skies, and the red seas of terrestrial liquid, as matters that must
be; cheered one another with jocosities, with choral snatches
(tobacco, I consider, would not burn); and swashed unweariedly
forward. Ten hours some of them were out, their march being twenty
or twenty-five miles; ten to fifteen was the average distance come.
Nor, singular to say, did any loss occur; except of ALMOST one poor
Army-Chaplain, and altogether of one poor Soldier's Wife;--sank
dangerously both of them, beyond redemption she, taking the wrong
side of some bridge-parapet. Poor Soldier's Wife, she is not named
to me at all; and has no history save this, and that "she was of
the regiment Bredow." But I perceive she washed herself away in a
World-Transaction; and there was one rough Bredower, who probably
sat sad that night on getting to quarters. His Majesty surveyed the
damp battalions on the morrow (21st), not without sympathy, not
without satisfaction; allowed them a rest-day here at Milkau, to
get dry and bright again; and gave them "fifteen thalers a
company," which is about ninepence apiece, with some words of
praise. [ Helden-Geschichte, i.482.]

Next day, Thursday, 22d, his Majesty and they marched on to
Herrendorf; which is only five miles from Glogau, and near enough
for Head-quarters, in the now humor of the place. Wallis has his
messenger at Herrendorf, "Sorry to warn your Majesty, That if there
be the least hostility committed, I shall have to resist it to the
utmost." Head-quarters continue six days at Herrendorf, Army (main
body, or left Column, of the Army) cantoned all round, till we
consider what to do.