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CH. xxv] LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI 61
strongest of those men: " Lay all your arms aside."
When they had set them down, he said: " Leap very
quickly upon him and take him. Even were he the devil,
should so many of us be afraid of him? Hold him now
firmly, so that he do not escape." I, seized by force and
roughly handled by them, imagining much worse things
than that which eventually happened to me, raising my
eyes to Christ said: " Oh Just God! Thou hast paid upon
that lofty Tree all our debts; why then must my inno-
cence pay the debts of some one whom I do not know?
Nevertheless Thy will be done." Meanwhile they were
carrying me away by the light of a great torch. I thought
that they wanted to throw me into the trap of Sammald;^
for thus was named a dreadful place, which has swal-
lowed up many persons while still alive, for they happen
to fall down into a well in the foundations of the Cas-
tello. This did not happen to me: wherefore it seemed
to me that I had made a very good bargain; for they
put me in that very horrid cavern above-mentioned,
wherein Foiano died of hunger, and there they let me
stay, doing me no other ill. When they had left me, I
began to sing a AC (Ac), a
and an A2 AC772272C All that first day of
August I was holding festival with God, and my heart
was alway rejoicing in Hope and Faith. The second
^ A gloomy dungeon, into which unhappy prisoners were lowered
from above by a rope; the 77237/%7M3772 of the Renaissance.
Within it perished Florido, Archbishop of Cosenza, for forging
Letters Apostolic. BuRCKHARD calls this dungeon A2773772<37Y2cA?y
CELLINI .Sh:7737/2%/A,' but it was really styled .V%72 AAzzwo?, from a
representation of the saint, or from a chapel so designated which
formerly existed there. <y BoRGATi, ^73?' ^73^*Ac z'72
AC772<3, 1890, p. 109.
strongest of those men: " Lay all your arms aside."
When they had set them down, he said: " Leap very
quickly upon him and take him. Even were he the devil,
should so many of us be afraid of him? Hold him now
firmly, so that he do not escape." I, seized by force and
roughly handled by them, imagining much worse things
than that which eventually happened to me, raising my
eyes to Christ said: " Oh Just God! Thou hast paid upon
that lofty Tree all our debts; why then must my inno-
cence pay the debts of some one whom I do not know?
Nevertheless Thy will be done." Meanwhile they were
carrying me away by the light of a great torch. I thought
that they wanted to throw me into the trap of Sammald;^
for thus was named a dreadful place, which has swal-
lowed up many persons while still alive, for they happen
to fall down into a well in the foundations of the Cas-
tello. This did not happen to me: wherefore it seemed
to me that I had made a very good bargain; for they
put me in that very horrid cavern above-mentioned,
wherein Foiano died of hunger, and there they let me
stay, doing me no other ill. When they had left me, I
began to sing a AC (Ac), a
and an A2 AC772272C All that first day of
August I was holding festival with God, and my heart
was alway rejoicing in Hope and Faith. The second
^ A gloomy dungeon, into which unhappy prisoners were lowered
from above by a rope; the 77237/%7M3772 of the Renaissance.
Within it perished Florido, Archbishop of Cosenza, for forging
Letters Apostolic. BuRCKHARD calls this dungeon A2773772<37Y2cA?y
CELLINI .Sh:7737/2%/A,' but it was really styled .V%72 AAzzwo?, from a
representation of the saint, or from a chapel so designated which
formerly existed there. <y BoRGATi, ^73?' ^73^*Ac z'72
AC772<3, 1890, p. 109.