Note 41 — AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LEONORA CHRISTINA 1673.
F. E. (Fanny Elizabeth) Bunnett translation
The apology of Uhlfeldt contains an account of this whole transaction. He states that when he asked his wife through the window whether they ought to sign and live rather than die in prison, which would otherwise be their lot, Leonora answered with the following Latin verse:
Rebus in adversis facile est contemnere mortem, Fortius ille facit, qui miser esse potest. Accidit in puncto, quod non speratur in anno.