Dürer. And I have heard that his eyes were blue-gray like those of Minerva Bellatrix.
Vel. You have made the corners of the eyes too fleshy and the hollows too moist.
Dürer. He was weeping because accused by Cato.
Vel. The jaws are too long, and the beard very thick and profuse. You would say the hairs are the bristles of swine.
Dürer. You are beyond measure, chatterers and talkative cavillers. Get away with you. I won’t let you have the opportunity of further criticising the picture.
Vel. Please, my Dürer, since you have no other clients, let us go on criticising here.
Dürer. What is the good to me?
Vel. We will each of us write a distich for you, whereby the picture will be more easily sold.
Dürer. My art has no need of your commendation. For skilled buyers who understand pictures, don’t buy verses, but works of art.
Vel. But your Scipio has his nostrils too much dilated.