Patruelis quippe erat abbatis sui Benedicti, sed amborum tanta mentis ingenuitas, talis mundanae ingenuitatis fuit pro nihilo contemptus, ut neque iste monasterium ingressus, aliquem sibi prae ceteris ob intuitum consanguinitatis aut nobilitatis honorem quaerendum, neque ille putaret offerendum:
He was indeed cousin of his abbot Benedict; but so high was the honourable spirit of them both, so utterly did they look down upon worldly honour as of nothing worth, that the one, when he entered into the monastery, thought it not meet to seek any dignity for himself above the rest in regard of family or noble birth, nor did the other think it should be offered unto him;
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