Therefore comfort him and tell him to be of good cheer.

Tell Lodovico also that about the middle of next month I hope to cast my figure without fail; therefore, if he will offer prayers, or anything else for its good success, let him do so betimes, and say I beg this of him.

I have no time to write more.

Things go well.
"The twenty-sixth day of May (1507).
"MICHAEL ANGELO, in Bologna."(95) At last, on July 1, it is done, but done badly; and he writes:-- To the same.
"BUONARROTO,--We have cast my figure, and it has come out so badly that I truly believe I shall have to do it all again.

I cannot write all the particulars, because I have other things to think of.