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184 LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. 11
I kept shouting to the judge: "To the stake, to the stake"
(y^<?y<?,yw<%v). That great coward (of a judge), when he
saw that the matter had not come off in the fashion
that he had planned, began with many soft words to
excuse the weak female sex. At this I thought that it
seemed I had won a great battle, and muttering and
threatening, I gladly went away: but I certainly would
have paid five hundred not to have ever appeared
there. On issuing from that ocean (of trouble) I thanked
God with all my heart, and joyfully returned with my
young men to my When perverse fortune, or
rather we should truthfully say that contrary star of
ours, takes to persecuting a man it is never wanting in
fresh methods of taking the held against him. Since it
seemed to me that I had escaped from an immeasurable
ocean, I thought that for some small space of time this
perverse star of mine ought to let me rest; but although
I had not yet recovered my breath from that extreme
danger it set two more in my way at one blow. At the
end of three days two events happened to me: in each
of the two my life was poised upon the turn of the
balance. The one was that I went to Fontana Belio
to discuss (a matter) with the King, who had written
me a letter, in which (he had said that) he wished me
to execute the dies for the money of his entire realm.
And along with that same letter he had sent me some
sketches, to show me what his wishes were: but never-
theless he gave me permission to make whatsoever
thing was pleasing to myself. I had made new designs
according to my own opinion and according to the
beauties of my art: so when I arrived at Fontana Belio,
one of those treasurers who held the King's commission to
I kept shouting to the judge: "To the stake, to the stake"
(y^<?y<?,yw<%v). That great coward (of a judge), when he
saw that the matter had not come off in the fashion
that he had planned, began with many soft words to
excuse the weak female sex. At this I thought that it
seemed I had won a great battle, and muttering and
threatening, I gladly went away: but I certainly would
have paid five hundred not to have ever appeared
there. On issuing from that ocean (of trouble) I thanked
God with all my heart, and joyfully returned with my
young men to my When perverse fortune, or
rather we should truthfully say that contrary star of
ours, takes to persecuting a man it is never wanting in
fresh methods of taking the held against him. Since it
seemed to me that I had escaped from an immeasurable
ocean, I thought that for some small space of time this
perverse star of mine ought to let me rest; but although
I had not yet recovered my breath from that extreme
danger it set two more in my way at one blow. At the
end of three days two events happened to me: in each
of the two my life was poised upon the turn of the
balance. The one was that I went to Fontana Belio
to discuss (a matter) with the King, who had written
me a letter, in which (he had said that) he wished me
to execute the dies for the money of his entire realm.
And along with that same letter he had sent me some
sketches, to show me what his wishes were: but never-
theless he gave me permission to make whatsoever
thing was pleasing to myself. I had made new designs
according to my own opinion and according to the
beauties of my art: so when I arrived at Fontana Belio,
one of those treasurers who held the King's commission to