The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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My Lord, I knowing your Excellency's  
mind to be occupied ...  
to remind your Lordship of my small matters  
and the arts put to silence  
that my silence might be the cause of making  
your Lordship scorn ...  
my life in your service. I hold myself ever  
in readiness to obey ...  
[
Footnote 11: See No. 723, where this passage is repeated.]  
Of the horse I will say nothing because  
I know the times [are bad]  
to your Lordship how I had still to receive  
two years' salary of the ...  
with the two skilled workmen who are constantly  
in my pay and at my cost  
that at last I found myself advanced the  
said sum about 15 lire ...  
works of fame by which I could show to  
those who shall see it that I have been  
everywhere, but I do not know where I  
could bestow my work [more] ...  
[
Footnote 17: See No. 1344 l. 12.]  
I, having been working to gain my  
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