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MICHAEL ANGELO's Studio. He is at work on the cartoon of the Last Judgment.
MICHAEL ANGELO. / Why did the Pope and his ten Cardinals / Come here to lay this heavy task upon me? / Were not the paintings on the Sistine ceiling / Enough for them? They saw the Hebrew leader / Waiting, and clutching his tempestuous beard, / But heeded not. The bones of Julius / Shook in their sepulchre. I heard the sound; / They only heard the sound of their own voices.