_Vous voulez qu'en vrai dieu de la machine,_ "You will have me as theatre-god, then, _"J'arrive pour te denouement ?_ "Swoop in, and produce the catastrophe?
_"Qu'aux Anglais, aux Pandours, a ce peuple insolent, "J'aille donner la discipline ?--_ "Tame to sobriety those English, those Pandours, and obstreperous people?
_"Mais examinez mieux ma mine;_ "Examine the look of me better; _"Je ne suis pas assez mechant!_ "I have not surliness euough.
MEMORIAL BY VOLTAIRE.

"7.

Whatever resolution may be come to, will your Majesty deign to confide it to me, and impart the result,--to your servant, to him who desires to pass his life at your Court?
May I have the honor to 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.

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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.