Saxony might have some clippings from Bohemia thrown to it, and so be gained over.

Scanty Harvest, 1740, threatened difficulties as to provisioning of troops.
"The risks were great.

One had to apprehend the vicissitudes of war.

A single battle lost might be decisive.

The King had no allies; and his troops, hitherto without experience, would have to front old Austrian soldiers, grown gray in harness, and trained to war by so many campaigns.
"On the other side were hopeful considerations,"-- four in number: FIRST, Weak condition of the Austrian Court, Treasury empty, War-Apparatus broken in pieces; inexperienced young Princess to defend a disputed succession, on those terms.