Vasari, observing all this, and wishing to do the revered artist a kindness, sent him 40 lbs.

of candles made of goat's fat, knowing that they gutter less than ordinary dips of tallow.

His servant carried them politely to the house two hours after night-fall, and presented them to Michael Angelo.

He refused, and said he did not want them.

The man answered: "Sir, they have almost broken my back carrying them all this long way from the bridge, and I will not carry them home again.