nam peragratis forte dioecesibus cum domum veni, si quod schedium temere iacens chartulis putribus ac veternosis continebatur, raptim coactimque translator festinus exscripsi, tempore hiberno nil retardatus, quin actutum iussa complerem, licet antiquarium moraretur insiccabilis gelu pagina et calamo durior gutta, quam iudicasses imprimentibus digitis non fluere sed frangi.
For when I got home after a diocesan visitation, I copied out hastily and under pressure, working in a fury of transcription, all the bits of writing that lay about at random in crumbling worn-out papers: nor did I let the wintry season hinder me from at once carrying out your orders, although the amanuensis was delayed by the cold which prevented the page from drying and by the ink-drops freezing harder than the pen, so that you might have thought them to be not flowing but breaking into pieces when his fingers pressed the nib.
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