They were to appear at the ensuing grand Review, as Friedrich Wilhelm understood.

Whereupon Friedrich Wilhelm took his measures in private.

Dressed up, namely, his Scavenger-Executioner people (what they call PROFOSSEN in Prussian regiments) in an enormous exaggeration of that costume; cocked-hats about an ell in diameter, wigs reaching to the houghs, with other fittings to match: these, when Count Rothenburg and his company appeared upon the ground, Friedrich Wilhelm summoned out, with some trumpet-peal or burst of field-music; and they solemnly crossed Count Rothenburg's field of vision; the strangest set of, Phantasms he had seen lately.
Awakening salutary reflections in him.

[Forster, i.

165; Faasmann, _Leben und Thaten des allerdurchlauchtigsten gc.