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CH. xi] LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI 31$
be too long I will not write down, the Duke shaking his
head went away.
Having made security for myself with a good cour-
age, and having chased away all those thoughts, which
now and again presented themselves before me, which
often made me weep bitterly with regret for my de-
parture from France in order to return to Florence, my
sweet native land, merely to perform a charity to my said
six young nieces, and I saw clearly that by having done
so I had exposed myself to the beginning of so much
evil; in spite of all this I promised myself for certain
that when I had finished the work of that I had
begun, all my tribulations ought to be converted into
highest pleasure and glorious well-being. And so having
recovered my energy, with all my forces both of body
and of purse,—although only a few coins remained to
me,—I began to endeavour to procure several loads of
pine-wood, which I got from the pine groves of the Seris-
tori near Monte Lupo. And whilst I was waiting for
them I clad my in those clays that I had
prepared several months previously, in order that they
might be in their proper condition A? /277-v
j/<ag-2h73<?).' And when I had made his clay tunic (/<?732ZC2Z
2/2 —for they call it ^773<%<r<3 in the profession—and
had very thoroughly supplied and girdled it round with
great care with iron supports, I began with a slow
hre to withdraw the wax, which issued through the
** In Chap. II of the above-cited 7*7-v<z/2.sv #72 6*2*22^/227*^ (2*7/. 2*2'/.,
p. 754) CELLINI tells us that "the secret is this (for preparing the
clay), that it must be kept soft for four months at least, and the
longer it stands the better, since the surface decomposes, and through
being thus decomposed the clay becomes like an unguent."
be too long I will not write down, the Duke shaking his
head went away.
Having made security for myself with a good cour-
age, and having chased away all those thoughts, which
now and again presented themselves before me, which
often made me weep bitterly with regret for my de-
parture from France in order to return to Florence, my
sweet native land, merely to perform a charity to my said
six young nieces, and I saw clearly that by having done
so I had exposed myself to the beginning of so much
evil; in spite of all this I promised myself for certain
that when I had finished the work of that I had
begun, all my tribulations ought to be converted into
highest pleasure and glorious well-being. And so having
recovered my energy, with all my forces both of body
and of purse,—although only a few coins remained to
me,—I began to endeavour to procure several loads of
pine-wood, which I got from the pine groves of the Seris-
tori near Monte Lupo. And whilst I was waiting for
them I clad my in those clays that I had
prepared several months previously, in order that they
might be in their proper condition A? /277-v
j/<ag-2h73<?).' And when I had made his clay tunic (/<?732ZC2Z
2/2 —for they call it ^773<%<r<3 in the profession—and
had very thoroughly supplied and girdled it round with
great care with iron supports, I began with a slow
hre to withdraw the wax, which issued through the
** In Chap. II of the above-cited 7*7-v<z/2.sv #72 6*2*22^/227*^ (2*7/. 2*2'/.,
p. 754) CELLINI tells us that "the secret is this (for preparing the
clay), that it must be kept soft for four months at least, and the
longer it stands the better, since the surface decomposes, and through
being thus decomposed the clay becomes like an unguent."