The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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I am greatly annoyed that you should have found me in necessity, and  
that my having to earn my living should have hindered me ...  
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12] It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me  
to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters, instead of  
following up the work which your Lordship entrusted to me. But I  
hope in a short time to have earned so much that I may carry it out  
quietly to the satisfaction of your Excellency, to whom I commend  
myself; and if your Lordship thought that I had money, your Lordship  
was deceived. I had to feed 6 men for 56 months, and have had 50  
ducats.  
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345.  
And if any other comission is given me  
by any ...  
of the reward of my service. Because I am  
not [able] to be ...  
things assigned because meanwhile they  
have ... to them ...  
... which they well may settle rather than I ...  
not my art which I wish to change and ...  
given some clothing if I dare a sum ...  
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