I told him I intended to go on the stage and he said I did well not to remain there.

I had only a florin which I borrowed from one of the lacqueys, and I told this devil that I should require 20 florins at the very least.

He promised to get them for me from a usurer but told me I should have to give a bill for forty.

Do you think I cared what I signed then?
Not long afterwards he came back again and said the usurer would give nothing on the strength of my signature, because I was a minor, but that if my sister's name stood upon the bill he would advance upon that because she was a married woman.

Margari persuaded me to sign the bill in her name.