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144 LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. 11
set me between them; so that when I was one hundred
paces off, I set off at full speed, and cried out with a
loud voice: "To arms! To arms! Out! Out! For I am
being murdered." There immediately ran up four young
men with four halberds <37*77-2;? 272 <3^23?); and when
they wanted to follow after those men, whom they could
still see, I stopped them, saying very loudly: "Those
four cowards have not known how to plunder one man
alone of one thousand gold in gold, which have
almost broken his arm (by their weight); therefore let us
first go and put it away, and afterwards I will, with my
great two-handed sword, accompany you wherever you
like." We went to deposit the money; and those young
men of mine, lamenting much the great peril that I had
run, chiding me at the same time, said: "You put too
much trust in yourself, and one of these days you will
give us all cause to weep." I made many remarks (upon
the point), and they also replied. My adversaries fled;
and we all supped gaily and cheerfully, laughing at
those great chances that fortune creates, as much for
good as for bad; and which when they do not come off
are as if nothing had occurred. It is very true that one
says to oneself: "You will learn for another time." But
this goes for nothing, for things always fall out in some
different fashion, and not as one ever expects.
set me between them; so that when I was one hundred
paces off, I set off at full speed, and cried out with a
loud voice: "To arms! To arms! Out! Out! For I am
being murdered." There immediately ran up four young
men with four halberds <37*77-2;? 272 <3^23?); and when
they wanted to follow after those men, whom they could
still see, I stopped them, saying very loudly: "Those
four cowards have not known how to plunder one man
alone of one thousand gold in gold, which have
almost broken his arm (by their weight); therefore let us
first go and put it away, and afterwards I will, with my
great two-handed sword, accompany you wherever you
like." We went to deposit the money; and those young
men of mine, lamenting much the great peril that I had
run, chiding me at the same time, said: "You put too
much trust in yourself, and one of these days you will
give us all cause to weep." I made many remarks (upon
the point), and they also replied. My adversaries fled;
and we all supped gaily and cheerfully, laughing at
those great chances that fortune creates, as much for
good as for bad; and which when they do not come off
are as if nothing had occurred. It is very true that one
says to oneself: "You will learn for another time." But
this goes for nothing, for things always fall out in some
different fashion, and not as one ever expects.