Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia" BOOK VIII.
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of the marriage with the Princess of Mecklenburg,--Niece of the
late Czar Peter the Great; Daughter of that unhappy Duke who is in
quarrel with his Ritters, and a trouble to all his neighbors, and
to us among the number. Readers recollect that young Lady's Serene
Mother, and a meeting she once had with her Uncle Peter,--at
Magdeburg, a dozen years ago, in a public drawing-room with alcove
near; anecdote not lightly to be printed in human types, nor
repeated where not necessary. The Mother is now dead; Father still
up to the eyes in puddle and trouble: but as for the young Lady
herself, she is Niece to the now Czarina Anne; by law of
primogeniture Heiress of all the Russias; something of a
match truly!

"But there will be difficulties; your Highness to change your
religion, for one thing?--PRINCE: Won't, by any means:--
SCHULENBURG: And give up the succession to Prussia?--
PRINCE: A right fool if I did!--SCHULENBURG: Then this marriage
comes to nothing.--Thereupon next he said, If the Kaiser is so
strong for us, let him give me his second Daughter;" lucky Franz
of Lorraine is to get the first.--"SCHULENBURG: Are you serious?--
PRINCE: Why not? with a Duchy or two it would do very well.--
SCHULENBURG: No Duchies possible under the Pragmatic Sanction,
your Highness: besides, your change of religion?--PRINCE: Oh, as
to that, never!--Then this marriage also comes to nothing
Of the English, and their Double-Marriage, and their Hotham
brabble, he spoke lightly, as of an extinct matter,--in terms
your Excellency will like.

"But, said I, since you speak so much of marriages, I suppose you
wish to be married?--PRINCE: No; but if the King absolutely will
have it, I will marry to obey him. After that, I will shove my
wife into the corner (PLANTERAI LA MA FEMME), and live after my
own faucy.--SCHULENBURG: Horrible to think of! For, in the first
place, your Highness, is it not written in the Law of God,
Adulterers shall not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven?" And in the
second place; and in the third and fourth place!--To all which he
answered as wild young fellows do, especially if you force
marriage on them. "I can perceive, if he marries, it will only be