One picture, just one more--the Virgin’s face, {230} Not your’s this time! I want you at my side To hear them--that is, Michel Agnolo-- Judge all I do and tell you of its worth. Will you? To-morrow, satisfy your friend. I take the subjects for his corridor, Finish the potrait out of hand--there, there, And throw him in another thing or two If he demurs; the whole should prove enough To pay for this same cousin’s freak. Beside, What’s better and what’s all I care about, {240} Get you the thirteen scudi for the ruff! Love, does that please you? Ah, but what does he, The cousin! what does he to please you more? I am grown peaceful as old age to-night. I regret little, I would change still less. Since there my past life lies, why alter it? The very wrong to Francis!--it is true I took his coin, was tempted and complied, And built this house and sinned, and all is said. My father and my mother died of want. {250} Well, had I riches of my own? you see How one gets rich! Let each one bear his lot. They were born poor, lived poor, and poor they died: And I have labored somewhat in my time And not been paid profusely. Some good son Paint my two hundred pictures--let him try! No doubt, there’s something strikes a balance. Yes, You loved me quite enough, it seems to-night. This must suffice me here. What would one have? In heaven, perhaps, new chances, one more chance-- {260} Four great walls in the New Jerusalem, Meted on each side by the angel’s reed, For Leonard, Rafael, Agnolo, and me To cover--the three first without a wife, While I have mine! So--still they overcome Because there’s still Lucrezia,--as I choose. Again the cousin’s whistle! Go, my love. -- 29. My face, my moon: “Once, like the moon, I made The ever-shifting currents of the blood According to my humor ebb and flow.” --Cleopatra, in Tennyson’s ‘A Dream of Fair Women’. “You are the powerful moon of my blood’s sea, To make it ebb or flow into my face As your looks change.” --Ford and Decker’s ‘Witch of Edmonton’. 35. A common grayness: Andrea del Sarto was distinguished for his skill in chiaro-oscuro.