accompany your Majesty to Baireuth; and if your goodness go so far,
would you please to declare it, that I may have time to prepare for
the journey? One favorable word written to me in the Letter on that
occasion [word favorable to France, ostensible to M. Amelot and the
most Christian Majesty], one word would suffice to procure me the
happiness I have, for six years, been aspiring to, of living
beside you." Oh, send it!

MARGINALIA BY FRIEDRICH.
"7. If you like to come to Baireuth, I shall be glad to see you
there, provided the journey don't derange your health. It will
depend on yourself, then, to take what measures you please.
[And about the ostensible WORD,--Nothing!]

MEMORIAL BY VOLTAIRE.
"8. During the short stay I am now to make, if I could be made the
bearer of some news agreeable to my Court, I would supplicate your
Majesty to honor me with such a commission. [This does not want for
impudence, Monsieur! Friedrich answers, from aloft!]

MARGINALIA BY FRIEDRICH.
"8. I am not in any connection with France; I have nothing to fear
nor to hope from France. If you would like, I will make a Panegyric
on Louis XV. without a word of truth in it: but as to political
business, there is, at present, none to bring us together;
and neither is it I that am to speak first. When they put a
question to me, it will he time to reply: but you, who are so much
a man of sense, you see well what a ridiculous business it would he
if, without ground given me, I set to prescribing projects of
policy to France, and even put them on paper with my own hand!