Hi ergo cum essent in monasterio quod lingua Scottorum Rathmelsigi appellatur, et omnes socii ipsorum vel mortalitate de saeculo rapti, vel per alia essent loca dispersi, correpti sunt ambo morbo eiusdem mortalitatis, et gravissime adflicti: e quibus Ecgberct, sicut mihi referebat quidam veracissimus et venerandae canitiei presbyter qui se haec ab ipso audisse perhibebat, cum se aestimasset esse moriturum, egressus est tempore matutino de cubiculo in quo infirmi quiescebant, et residens solus in loco opportuno, coepit sedulus cogitare de actibus suis, et conpunctus memoria peccatorum suorum faciem lacrimis abluebat, atque intimo ex corde Deum precabatur, ne adhuc mori deberet, priusquam vel praeteritas negligentias quas in pueritia sive infantia commiserat, perfectius ex tempore castigaret, vel in bonis se operibus habundantius exerceret.
These youths then living in the monastery which in the Scottish tongue is called Rathmalsigi, all their companions either being carried off from the world by the mortality or scattered abroad in divers places, were both of them seized of the same mortal sickness and grievously tormented: and of the two, Egbert (as I learned by the report of a most trusty and venerable gray-headed priest which told me he heard the story at Egberts own mouth), thinking he was at the point to die, departed very early out of his chamber where the sick were wont to lie, and sitting down alone in a commodious place began diligently to think upon his former life, and being pricked with the remembrance of his sins washed his face with tears and beseeched God from the bottom of his heart that he might not have yet to die, before he should either more completely, as occasion served, amend his former failings which he had committed in his boyhood and infancy, or exercise himself more fully in good works.
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