"The said Michele told me you mentioned to him having spent about sixty ducats at Settignano.

I remember your saying here too at table that you had disbursed a large sum out of your own pocket.

I pretended not to understand, and did not feel the least surprise, because I know you.

I should like to hear from your ingratitude out of what money you gained them.

If you had enough sense to know the truth, you would not say: 'I spent so and so much of my own;' also you would not have come here to push your affairs with me, seeing how I have always acted toward you in the past, but would have rather said: 'Michelangelo remembers what he wrote to us, and if he does not now do what he promised, he must be prevented by something of which we are ignorant,' and then have kept your peace; because it is not well to spur the horse that runs as fast as he is able, and more than he is able.