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CH. xxi] LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI 383
buse; and turning to my companions I said: "At the
first (shot) I shall kill him; and you others do your
duty, for they are highway robbers and have taken this
slight occasion merely (as a pretext) for assassinating us."
The landlord, where we had eaten, called to one of those
leaders who was an elderly man, and begged
him to moderate so much disturbance, saying to him:
"This is a most brave young man, and even though you cut
him in pieces, he will slaughter a great many of you, and
will perhaps manage to escape from your hands after
having done all the harm that he is able to do." The
affair quieted down, and that old leader of theirs said
to me: " Go in peace, for you won't make much of a
success (72^72 %72<3 2*72.M:A?A3) if you had a full hun-
dred men with you."
I, who recognized that he was telling the truth and
was already prepared and fancied myself dead, when I
heard no more insulting words, tossing my head said:
" I would certainly have done everything in my power to
show that I was a living animal and a man"; and
having recommenced our journey, that evening at the
first halting-place, we made up an account of that
common purse, and I separated myself from that odious
Frenchman, remaining great friends with the other one,
who was a nobleman; and with my three horses only
we came to Ferrara. When I had dismounted I went to
the Court of the Duke to make my salutations to His
Excellency, so that I might be able to depart in the
morning on my way to Santa Maria dal (.rfr) Loretod I
upon the steel, and, kindling the spark, set hre to the powder in
the pan.
^ The celebrated shrine of La Madonna di Loreto in the Marches.
buse; and turning to my companions I said: "At the
first (shot) I shall kill him; and you others do your
duty, for they are highway robbers and have taken this
slight occasion merely (as a pretext) for assassinating us."
The landlord, where we had eaten, called to one of those
leaders who was an elderly man, and begged
him to moderate so much disturbance, saying to him:
"This is a most brave young man, and even though you cut
him in pieces, he will slaughter a great many of you, and
will perhaps manage to escape from your hands after
having done all the harm that he is able to do." The
affair quieted down, and that old leader of theirs said
to me: " Go in peace, for you won't make much of a
success (72^72 %72<3 2*72.M:A?A3) if you had a full hun-
dred men with you."
I, who recognized that he was telling the truth and
was already prepared and fancied myself dead, when I
heard no more insulting words, tossing my head said:
" I would certainly have done everything in my power to
show that I was a living animal and a man"; and
having recommenced our journey, that evening at the
first halting-place, we made up an account of that
common purse, and I separated myself from that odious
Frenchman, remaining great friends with the other one,
who was a nobleman; and with my three horses only
we came to Ferrara. When I had dismounted I went to
the Court of the Duke to make my salutations to His
Excellency, so that I might be able to depart in the
morning on my way to Santa Maria dal (.rfr) Loretod I
upon the steel, and, kindling the spark, set hre to the powder in
the pan.
^ The celebrated shrine of La Madonna di Loreto in the Marches.