Che da quel che non puô sua vogler toglia."

I could not live the wisdom which I taught,

So I must be a master of design

And studied sculpture with Verocchio,

Verocchio who had his dusty shop

On Amo's banks in grand Lorenzo's time.

Thither, while yet a boy, I did resort

And out of terra-cotta caused to smile

Women whose beauty ne'er hath been surpassed,

Nor equalled in the flesh for Man's delight.