At ille respondit, non se tunc velle confiteri peccata sua, sed cum ab infirmitate resurgeret; ne exprobrarent sibi sodales, quod timore mortis faceret ea quae sospes facere noluerat; fortiter quidem, ut sibi videbatur, locutus, sed miserabiliter, ut post patuit, daemonica fraude seductus.
But he answered, that he would not then confess his sins, but would do so when he was recovered of his sickness; lest his fellows should lay it to his charge that he did for fear of death that which in his health he had not vouchsafed to do; wherein he spake (to his own liking) stoutly, but as it appeared after, he was miserably led astray by the craft of the devil.
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