Is't you Vitelli?     

  

 [Vitelli] 

       Leonardo?     

  

 [Leonardo da Vinci] 

       Yes.     

  

 [Vitelli speaks] 

  

       Well, how's the painting? Is her portrait done?     

       Whose portrait? Why, the one of Lisa's face.     

       Not finished! What, 'tis only just begun?     

       Well, that's a pity. Four years seems some time     

       To gape before a canvas with a brush.     

       Beg pardon. This is what I meant to say:     

       That since you could not paint her in her life,     

       You'll scarce be more successful now she's     

       dead . . .     

       You did not know? . . . Why, she's been dead  

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