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5§ LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. i
For Heav'n doth promise greater joys
Than ever ye did know.
Yet stay we for a space,
Since the Great God doth grant you grace,
Lest greater be your woe.
Having recovered once more my vigour, after I had by
my own exertions comforted myself, I continued to read
my Bible, and I had in a way accustomed my eyes to
that obscurity, so that whereas at first I was wont to
read but one hour and a half, I now read for three whole
ones. And I pondered in so great wonder over the
strength of God's power over those very simple-hearted
men, who would have me believe with so much fervour
that God satisfied them in all that they dreamed of; I
promising myself likewise the help of God, both on
account of His Divine Power and Mercy, and also on
account of my own innocence; and turning continually
towards God, sometimes in prayer and sometimes in medi-
tation (7v^A7M7/2<?%A), I remained always in these high
thoughts of Him; in such measure that there began to
come upon me so great a delight in these thoughts of
God, that I remembered no more any misfortune that I
had ever had in the past, but rather I kept singing all
day psalms and many other compositions of my own all
addressed to God. My nails only which had grown gave
me great distress; for I could not touch myself without
wounding myself with them: I could not dress myself
because they turned either inwards or outwards giving
me much pain. My teeth also died in my mouth; and of
this I became aware, because the dead teeth being ex-
pelled by those which were alive, little by little perforated
the gums from below, and the ends of the roots came to
For Heav'n doth promise greater joys
Than ever ye did know.
Yet stay we for a space,
Since the Great God doth grant you grace,
Lest greater be your woe.
Having recovered once more my vigour, after I had by
my own exertions comforted myself, I continued to read
my Bible, and I had in a way accustomed my eyes to
that obscurity, so that whereas at first I was wont to
read but one hour and a half, I now read for three whole
ones. And I pondered in so great wonder over the
strength of God's power over those very simple-hearted
men, who would have me believe with so much fervour
that God satisfied them in all that they dreamed of; I
promising myself likewise the help of God, both on
account of His Divine Power and Mercy, and also on
account of my own innocence; and turning continually
towards God, sometimes in prayer and sometimes in medi-
tation (7v^A7M7/2<?%A), I remained always in these high
thoughts of Him; in such measure that there began to
come upon me so great a delight in these thoughts of
God, that I remembered no more any misfortune that I
had ever had in the past, but rather I kept singing all
day psalms and many other compositions of my own all
addressed to God. My nails only which had grown gave
me great distress; for I could not touch myself without
wounding myself with them: I could not dress myself
because they turned either inwards or outwards giving
me much pain. My teeth also died in my mouth; and of
this I became aware, because the dead teeth being ex-
pelled by those which were alive, little by little perforated
the gums from below, and the ends of the roots came to