celeriter iniunctis obsecundabo, cum tua tractus auctoritate, tum principaliter amplissimi viri Victorii comitis devotione praeventus, quem iure saeculari patronum, iure ecclesiastico filium excolo ut cliens, ut pater diligo; qui satis docuit, quae sibi aut qualis erga famulos Christi cura ferveret, cum torum circa decumbentis antistitis, non dignitatem minus quam membra curvatus ac supra vultum propinqua morte pallentem dolore concolor factus, quid viro vellet lacrimis indicibus ostenderet.
I will make haste to obey your injunction, influenced partly by your authority, but principally following the lead which the great Count Victorius has given by his devotion, a man whom I honour as my patron by worldly law and as my son by the law of the Church. He amply proved the reality and the quality of his earnest solicitude for the servants of Christ when at the bed of the dying abbot he bent not only his dignity but his limbs; and stooping, sympathetically pallid, over that face already marked with the pallor of approaching death he shewed by the telltale tears how he felt towards the man
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