DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.32874#0159
CH. ii] LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI 125
not come." The man replied that, since I would not
come by kindly treatment, he had authority to com-
mand the populace, that they should put me in bonds
like a prisoner. Ascanio also implored me as much as
he could, reminding me that when the King put anyone
in prison, it was five years at least ere he resolved to
take him out again. This mention of prison, recalling
to my mind that of Rome, produced in me so much
terror, that I quickly turned my horse in the direction
wherein the King's messenger told me. He, murmuring
continually in French, never stopped all through that
journey, until he brought me to the court: sometimes
he bullied me, and sometimes he said one thing and
sometimes another, (sufficient) to make me deny the
world.
not come." The man replied that, since I would not
come by kindly treatment, he had authority to com-
mand the populace, that they should put me in bonds
like a prisoner. Ascanio also implored me as much as
he could, reminding me that when the King put anyone
in prison, it was five years at least ere he resolved to
take him out again. This mention of prison, recalling
to my mind that of Rome, produced in me so much
terror, that I quickly turned my horse in the direction
wherein the King's messenger told me. He, murmuring
continually in French, never stopped all through that
journey, until he brought me to the court: sometimes
he bullied me, and sometimes he said one thing and
sometimes another, (sufficient) to make me deny the
world.