Verum quia de vita illius et virtutibus ante annos plures sufficienter et versibus heroicis, et simplici oratione conscripsimus, hoc tantum in praesenti commemorare satis sit, quod aditurus insulam protestatus est fratribus, dicens: Si mihi divina gratia in loco illo donaverit, ut de opere manuum mearum vivere queam, libens ibi morabor; sin alias, ad vos citissime Deo volente revertar.
But because many years past we have sufficiently written of his life and mighty works both in heroical verse and in plain prose, let it suffice at this present only to rehearse thus much, that when he was at the point to go to the island he did declare to the brethren and say: If the grace of God do grant me in that place, that I may live by the work of mine own hands, I will gladly abide there; but if not, I will, God willing, very shortly return to you again.
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