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146 LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. 11
day, selecting from those who knew the most; but I
endeavoured to secure those of a kind whose health,
seeing that they were working for me, would serve me
rather better in continuous labour, than those who, unable
to endure great fatigue, thought to restore it by drink-
ing and eating a great deal; some of those Germans
who had more (practical) knowledge than the others,
when I wished them to imitate me (z'.<?., my energy)
their constitution would not support such a strain,
for it killed them. Whilst I was proceeding with the
silver when I saw that there was a good deal of
silver left over, I set to work without the King's know-
ledge to fashion a large silver vase with two handles
of the height of about a ^wcczh and a half. A desire
also came to me to cast in bronze that large model
that I had made for the silver Setting my hand
to this new experiment, which I had never tried before,
and consulting with certain of those old Parisian master-
workmen, I described to them all those methods by
which we in Italy are accustomed to carry out such a
job. They told me that they had never proceeded in
that way, but that if I would let it be done accord-
ing to their methods, they would hand it over to me
made and cast as sharp and beautiful as was that
(figure) in clay. I wanted to make a bargain with them,
laying (the responsibility) of this work upon them:
and beyond the price which they demanded from me I
promised them several yczzzfz in addition. They set to
work upon this job: and when I saw that they were not
going the right way to work, I hastily commenced a
head of /zz/zAr Ekzwzz?', with his bust, in armour, much
larger than life, which I copied from a small model that
day, selecting from those who knew the most; but I
endeavoured to secure those of a kind whose health,
seeing that they were working for me, would serve me
rather better in continuous labour, than those who, unable
to endure great fatigue, thought to restore it by drink-
ing and eating a great deal; some of those Germans
who had more (practical) knowledge than the others,
when I wished them to imitate me (z'.<?., my energy)
their constitution would not support such a strain,
for it killed them. Whilst I was proceeding with the
silver when I saw that there was a good deal of
silver left over, I set to work without the King's know-
ledge to fashion a large silver vase with two handles
of the height of about a ^wcczh and a half. A desire
also came to me to cast in bronze that large model
that I had made for the silver Setting my hand
to this new experiment, which I had never tried before,
and consulting with certain of those old Parisian master-
workmen, I described to them all those methods by
which we in Italy are accustomed to carry out such a
job. They told me that they had never proceeded in
that way, but that if I would let it be done accord-
ing to their methods, they would hand it over to me
made and cast as sharp and beautiful as was that
(figure) in clay. I wanted to make a bargain with them,
laying (the responsibility) of this work upon them:
and beyond the price which they demanded from me I
promised them several yczzzfz in addition. They set to
work upon this job: and when I saw that they were not
going the right way to work, I hastily commenced a
head of /zz/zAr Ekzwzz?', with his bust, in armour, much
larger than life, which I copied from a small model that