I have written him a letter.

I do not know what will follow.

I should have come to you immediately on the receipt of your last, but if I left without permission I doubt the Pope would be angry, and I should lose all that I ought to have.
Nevertheless, let me know immediately if Buonarroto should still be very bad, because if you think I ought to come I will ride post and be with you in two days, for men are worth more than money.
Let me know at once, for I am very anxious.
"On the 7th day of September.
"Your MICHAEL ANGELO, Sculptor, in Rome."(117) The following note tells of the end of the work: "I have finished the Chapel which I painted.

The Pope is very well satisfied, but other things do not happen as I wished.

Lay blame on the times, which are unfavourable to art." It is a note by Michael Angelo in the Buonarroto manuscripts of the British Museum, but undated.