Addidit autem vir etiam lacrimas precibus, diligenter obsecrans ut intraret oraturus pro illo, quia multum necessaria sibi esset vita ipsius; crederet vero quia si ille ei manum imponere atque eum benedicere voluisset, statim melius haberet.
Furthermore, the thane also entreated with weeping tears, earnestly desiring that he would go in to pray for the servant, because his life was very necessary to him; and he verily believed that if the bishop would lay his hand upon him and bless him, he should straightway begin to amend.
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