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CH. xxiv] LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI 47
and he served me admirably out shooting (%//,%
<3W%7 and never stayed more than a step away
from me. That night, being under my bed, three times
I summoned my servant that he should take him away
from under the bed, because he was howling fearfully.
When the servants came this dog threw himself upon
them to bite them. They were terrihed and were afraid
that the dogwas mad, because he kept barking continually.
So we passed on until the fourth hour of the night. On
the stroke of the fourth hour of the night the Bargello
with a strong guard entered into my chamber. Thereupon
the dog issued forth, and sprang upon these men with so
much fury, tearing at their cloaks and their hose, and
put them into such terror that they thought that he was
mad. Wherefore the Bargello, like a practical person,
said : " The natural instinct of good dogs is this, that
they always divine and foretell the evil that is about to
come upon their masters: let two of you take sticks and
beat off the dog, and let the others bind Benvenuto upon
this chair and take him to the place you know of." As
I have said the day just passed was that of Corpus
Domini, and it was at about the fourth hour of the
night. These men carried me shut up and covered
over, and four of them went before me, pushing aside
those few men who were still about in the streets. Thus
they bore me to the Torre di Nona (a place so-called)/
and put me into the prison for life, setting me down upon
a little piece of mattress, and giving me one of those
guards, who condoled with me all night upon my evil
fortune, saying to me: "Alas! poor Benvenuto! What
' ty Chap. X, VoL I, p. 194, n. 2.
and he served me admirably out shooting (%//,%
<3W%7 and never stayed more than a step away
from me. That night, being under my bed, three times
I summoned my servant that he should take him away
from under the bed, because he was howling fearfully.
When the servants came this dog threw himself upon
them to bite them. They were terrihed and were afraid
that the dogwas mad, because he kept barking continually.
So we passed on until the fourth hour of the night. On
the stroke of the fourth hour of the night the Bargello
with a strong guard entered into my chamber. Thereupon
the dog issued forth, and sprang upon these men with so
much fury, tearing at their cloaks and their hose, and
put them into such terror that they thought that he was
mad. Wherefore the Bargello, like a practical person,
said : " The natural instinct of good dogs is this, that
they always divine and foretell the evil that is about to
come upon their masters: let two of you take sticks and
beat off the dog, and let the others bind Benvenuto upon
this chair and take him to the place you know of." As
I have said the day just passed was that of Corpus
Domini, and it was at about the fourth hour of the
night. These men carried me shut up and covered
over, and four of them went before me, pushing aside
those few men who were still about in the streets. Thus
they bore me to the Torre di Nona (a place so-called)/
and put me into the prison for life, setting me down upon
a little piece of mattress, and giving me one of those
guards, who condoled with me all night upon my evil
fortune, saying to me: "Alas! poor Benvenuto! What
' ty Chap. X, VoL I, p. 194, n. 2.