When I came to examine it, I found it so marvellous that it surpasses all my expectations.

Wherefore, emboldened by your miracles, I conceived a great desire for that which I now see marvellously accomplished: I mean that the design is in all parts perfect and consummate, and one could not desire more, nor could desire attain to demanding so much.

I tell you that I am mighty pleased that the angel on the right hand is by far the fairer, since Michael will place you, Michelangelo, upon the right hand of our Lord at that last day.

Meanwhile, I do not know how else to serve you than by making orisons to this sweet Christ, whom you have drawn so well and exquisitely, and praying you to hold me yours to command as yours in all and for all." The admiration and the good-will of the great lady transpire in these somewhat incoherent and studied paragraphs.

Their verbiage leaves much to be desired in the way of logic and simplicity.