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CH. v] LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI 187
further. This morning only have I heard that you had
got it, and had taken it from me: the which work I had
earned by my wondrous efforts, and you take it from me
merely by your empty words." To this Bolognia an-
swered and said: "Oh! Benvenuto! Everyone seeks to
do his business in all the ways that he can. If the
King wishes it thus, what would you like to say in oppo-
sition? You will throw away your time, for I have
hastened it on, and it is mine. Now tell whatever you
like and Iwill listen to you." Ispokethus: "Know,Misser
Francesco! That I should have many words to say to
you, whereby with admirable reasoning and true I would
make you confess that such methods as those which you
have said and done are not customary among rational
creatures. However I will come with a few words quickly
to the point of the matter; but open your ears and listen
well to me, for the matter is important." He wanted to
rise from his seat, for he saw me flushed in countenance
and greatly changed. I said that it was not yet time to
rise: wherefore he should remain seated and listen to me.
Then I began speaking thus: " Misser Francesco! You
know that the job was mine first, and that by common
sense the time had passed in which anyone should speak
further regarding it. Now I tell you I shall be content
if you make a model, and I, besides that which I have
(already) made, will make another for it. Then we will
quietly carry them to our great King: and whichever of
us shall gain by that means the merit of having worked
the best, that man will be deservedly worthy of (making)
the And if it shall fall to you to do it, I will set
aside all this great injury that you have done me, and will
invoke a blessing upon your hands, as more worthy than
further. This morning only have I heard that you had
got it, and had taken it from me: the which work I had
earned by my wondrous efforts, and you take it from me
merely by your empty words." To this Bolognia an-
swered and said: "Oh! Benvenuto! Everyone seeks to
do his business in all the ways that he can. If the
King wishes it thus, what would you like to say in oppo-
sition? You will throw away your time, for I have
hastened it on, and it is mine. Now tell whatever you
like and Iwill listen to you." Ispokethus: "Know,Misser
Francesco! That I should have many words to say to
you, whereby with admirable reasoning and true I would
make you confess that such methods as those which you
have said and done are not customary among rational
creatures. However I will come with a few words quickly
to the point of the matter; but open your ears and listen
well to me, for the matter is important." He wanted to
rise from his seat, for he saw me flushed in countenance
and greatly changed. I said that it was not yet time to
rise: wherefore he should remain seated and listen to me.
Then I began speaking thus: " Misser Francesco! You
know that the job was mine first, and that by common
sense the time had passed in which anyone should speak
further regarding it. Now I tell you I shall be content
if you make a model, and I, besides that which I have
(already) made, will make another for it. Then we will
quietly carry them to our great King: and whichever of
us shall gain by that means the merit of having worked
the best, that man will be deservedly worthy of (making)
the And if it shall fall to you to do it, I will set
aside all this great injury that you have done me, and will
invoke a blessing upon your hands, as more worthy than