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356 LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. 11
much pleasure in that smail matter of these iittle things,
he made me work also by day, and if I delayed in going
to him His Most Illustrious Excellency sent for me.
Many times I made His Excellency understand that if
I diverted the day time from the several incon-
veniences would follow. And the first of these which
terrified me most was that the vast amount of time which
I saw that my work was taking up would be a reason
for causing annoyance to His Most Illustrious Excel-
lency, as subsequently did happen to me; the other was,
that I had a number of workmen, and when I was not
present they committed two notable abuses. And the
first of these was that they ruined my work, and the
other that they worked as little as possible; therefore
the Duke was satisfied that I should go to him only from
twenty-four of the clock onwards. And thus I had pacified
His Most Illustrious Excellency so marvellously that,
when I came to him in the evening, he kept increasing
his courtesies towards me. In these days he was build-
ing those new rooms towards the (Via dei) Leoni;* so
that, when His Excellency wished to retire apart more
privately, he had fitted up for him a certain small chamber
in these newly built apartments, and he directed me that
I should come to him by way of his Wardrobe, whereby
I passed very privately across the gallery of the Great
Hall, and by way of certain small closets (^^2^2/AA) I
used to go to the said small chamber most privately: of
which (privilege) in the space of a few days the Duchess
deprived me, causing all those conveniences for me to be
7A, on the side of the Palazzo Vecchio—then the Ducal resid-
ence—which looks towards the Via dei Leoni. Mr. J. A. SYMONDS
eems to have misunderstood this allusion.
much pleasure in that smail matter of these iittle things,
he made me work also by day, and if I delayed in going
to him His Most Illustrious Excellency sent for me.
Many times I made His Excellency understand that if
I diverted the day time from the several incon-
veniences would follow. And the first of these which
terrified me most was that the vast amount of time which
I saw that my work was taking up would be a reason
for causing annoyance to His Most Illustrious Excel-
lency, as subsequently did happen to me; the other was,
that I had a number of workmen, and when I was not
present they committed two notable abuses. And the
first of these was that they ruined my work, and the
other that they worked as little as possible; therefore
the Duke was satisfied that I should go to him only from
twenty-four of the clock onwards. And thus I had pacified
His Most Illustrious Excellency so marvellously that,
when I came to him in the evening, he kept increasing
his courtesies towards me. In these days he was build-
ing those new rooms towards the (Via dei) Leoni;* so
that, when His Excellency wished to retire apart more
privately, he had fitted up for him a certain small chamber
in these newly built apartments, and he directed me that
I should come to him by way of his Wardrobe, whereby
I passed very privately across the gallery of the Great
Hall, and by way of certain small closets (^^2^2/AA) I
used to go to the said small chamber most privately: of
which (privilege) in the space of a few days the Duchess
deprived me, causing all those conveniences for me to be
7A, on the side of the Palazzo Vecchio—then the Ducal resid-
ence—which looks towards the Via dei Leoni. Mr. J. A. SYMONDS
eems to have misunderstood this allusion.