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cn. xi] LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI 325
which reason I knee! to you and thank God with all my
heart." * Then I turned to a plate of salad ^ that was there
on a low bench, and with a great appetite I ate and
drank together with all that troop. Afterwards I went to
bed healthy and joyful, for it was 2 hours before daybreak;
and as if I had never had any ailment in the world, so
peacefully did I repose. That excellent servant-maid of
mine, without my saying anything to her, had provided me
with a fat young capon; in such a way that when I arose
from my bed, which was near the dinner-hour, she met
me cheerfully, saying " Oh! Is this the man who felt like
dying? I believe that those blows and kicks that you
gave to us last night, when you were so infuriated,
with that diabolical temper which you showed that you
had, perhaps struck terror into that so inordinate a fever
that you had, so that, lest you should attack it also, it took
to Right." And thus I sent my poor establishment, re-
lieved from so much fear and such inordinate efforts,
immediately to purchase, in the place of those plates
and bowls of pewter, as many earthen pots, and we dined
so agreeably that I never remember in all my life eating
with a greater joy, nor with a better appetite.
After dinner there came to see me all those who had
assisted me, who joyously congratulated me, thanking
God for all that had occurred. And they kept saying that
^ TASSI and BlANCHl suggest that this prayer is incomplete,
and propose the insertion of such words as "assist me in my work"
(%z'MA37722' 772z'%). But it is perhaps reasonable to suppose
that our hero would have us to understand that the answer came
so suddenly that the invocation was of necessity incomplete.
^ The words are absent in the first editions, but are
to be found in the margin of the MS. in the handwriting of Cellini's
second amanuensis.
which reason I knee! to you and thank God with all my
heart." * Then I turned to a plate of salad ^ that was there
on a low bench, and with a great appetite I ate and
drank together with all that troop. Afterwards I went to
bed healthy and joyful, for it was 2 hours before daybreak;
and as if I had never had any ailment in the world, so
peacefully did I repose. That excellent servant-maid of
mine, without my saying anything to her, had provided me
with a fat young capon; in such a way that when I arose
from my bed, which was near the dinner-hour, she met
me cheerfully, saying " Oh! Is this the man who felt like
dying? I believe that those blows and kicks that you
gave to us last night, when you were so infuriated,
with that diabolical temper which you showed that you
had, perhaps struck terror into that so inordinate a fever
that you had, so that, lest you should attack it also, it took
to Right." And thus I sent my poor establishment, re-
lieved from so much fear and such inordinate efforts,
immediately to purchase, in the place of those plates
and bowls of pewter, as many earthen pots, and we dined
so agreeably that I never remember in all my life eating
with a greater joy, nor with a better appetite.
After dinner there came to see me all those who had
assisted me, who joyously congratulated me, thanking
God for all that had occurred. And they kept saying that
^ TASSI and BlANCHl suggest that this prayer is incomplete,
and propose the insertion of such words as "assist me in my work"
(%z'MA37722' 772z'%). But it is perhaps reasonable to suppose
that our hero would have us to understand that the answer came
so suddenly that the invocation was of necessity incomplete.
^ The words are absent in the first editions, but are
to be found in the margin of the MS. in the handwriting of Cellini's
second amanuensis.