Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 40

[cahn]

I'm trying to use my other account at least occasionally so I posted about my Yuletide gifts there, including the salon-relevant 12k fic that features Fritz, Heinrich, Voltaire, Fredersdorf, Saint Germain, Caroline Daum (Fredersdorf's wife), and Groundhog Day tropes! (Don't need to know canon.)

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Re: Transcription attempts

[mildred_of_midgard]

qu'il pnt [context wise maybe ont? could be a short form of something else] patience

I spent much of the night struggling with "ont" being a plural, and with the "o" looking like a "p" to both of us, and a short form did occur to me: "prend", because that "t" looks to me like it could be a "d".

Then it would be "prend patience", which French wiktionary assures me is a thing. I'm not *sure* about the indicative there, but hey, what little French grammar I had is decades behind me.

I also remembered belatedly that "ai" is usually written "oi" in this period, so my proposed "saurait" would likely be "sauroit", which I think fits the handwriting better.