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CH. xxii] LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI 15
who also liked me extremely well, and who now and
again kept on reminding me of all the good offices that
this lord the Castellan had done on my behalf; in such
measure that in this case they styled me an ungrate-
ful man, untrustworthy and without faith. And when
one of those servants more rashly than was suitable,
uttered these insults to me, I, feeling conscious of
my innocence, responded angrily, saying that I was
never false to my word, and that I would hold to sus-
taining such statements with the value of my life, and
that further if either he or any one other person should
make such unjust statements, I would affirm that every
one who said such a thing lied in his throat. Unable to
endure this insult, he ran to the Castellan's chamber
and brought me the wax together with that model made
of the keys. Directly I saw the wax I said that he and
I were both right; and that he must arrange for me to
speak with the lord Castellan, for I would tell him plainly
how the thing had happened, which was a matter of
much greater importance than they thought. The Cas-
tellan immediately had me summoned, and I told him
all the circumstances; for which reason he imprisoned the
friar, who betrayed that clerk, so that he was about to be
hung. The said Castellan hushed up the matter, which
had already reached the ears of the Pope; he saved his
clerk from the gallows, and he gave me liberty in the
same way that I had had it previously. When I saw
this matter carried through with so much severity, I
began to think of my own affairs, saying to myself: " If
there came upon me another time one of these storms,
and this man should have no confidence in me, I should
come to be no longer under obligation to him, and
who also liked me extremely well, and who now and
again kept on reminding me of all the good offices that
this lord the Castellan had done on my behalf; in such
measure that in this case they styled me an ungrate-
ful man, untrustworthy and without faith. And when
one of those servants more rashly than was suitable,
uttered these insults to me, I, feeling conscious of
my innocence, responded angrily, saying that I was
never false to my word, and that I would hold to sus-
taining such statements with the value of my life, and
that further if either he or any one other person should
make such unjust statements, I would affirm that every
one who said such a thing lied in his throat. Unable to
endure this insult, he ran to the Castellan's chamber
and brought me the wax together with that model made
of the keys. Directly I saw the wax I said that he and
I were both right; and that he must arrange for me to
speak with the lord Castellan, for I would tell him plainly
how the thing had happened, which was a matter of
much greater importance than they thought. The Cas-
tellan immediately had me summoned, and I told him
all the circumstances; for which reason he imprisoned the
friar, who betrayed that clerk, so that he was about to be
hung. The said Castellan hushed up the matter, which
had already reached the ears of the Pope; he saved his
clerk from the gallows, and he gave me liberty in the
same way that I had had it previously. When I saw
this matter carried through with so much severity, I
began to think of my own affairs, saying to myself: " If
there came upon me another time one of these storms,
and this man should have no confidence in me, I should
come to be no longer under obligation to him, and