Like any theology, ‘Napoleonology’ is a form of study that aims at acquiring knowledge, but it suffers from one crucial limitation: it fails to explore its subject with due critical rigour.

Where they[…]doe vnbarke themselues and vnlade their goods.

It’s part of a whole lot of home-movie stuff I’ve just bought at Christie’s. Most of it’s too madly dull for words—you know, gay young things arsing around with no shame.

Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him, / That he ran mad and died.