Tell the father to send for him home.

I shall not pay another farthing.

I have no money.

I will have patience till he sends; and if he does not send, I will turn the boy out of doors.

I did so already on the second day of his arrival, and other times also, and the father does not believe it.
"_P.S._--If you talk to the father of the lad, put the matter to him nicely: as that he is a good boy, but too refined, and not fit for my service, and say that he had better send for him home." The repentant postscript is eminently characteristic of Michelangelo.
He used to write in haste, apparently just as the thoughts came.
Afterwards he read his letter over, and softened its contents down, if he did not, as sometimes happened, feel that his meaning required enforcement; in that case he added a stinging tail to the epigram.