Donaverat equum optimum antistiti Aidano, in quo ille quamvis ambulare solitus, vel amnium fluenta transire, vel si alia quaelibet necessitas insisteret, viam peragere posset: cui cum parvo interiecto tempore pauper quidam occurreret eleemosynam petens, desiliens ille praecepit equum, ita ut erat stratus regaliter, pauperi dari: erat enim multum misericors, et cultor pauperum, ac velut pater miserorum.
He had given to bishop Aidan a very fair horse on which the bishop (though he used most to travel on foot) might pass over flowing streams, or bring his journey to the end if any other necessity constrained: but when after a short space of time a certain poor man met the bishop and craved an alms of him, he lighted off and commanded the horse, gorgeously trapped as he was, to be given to the poor man: for he was passing pitiful, a lover of the poor and as it were a father of the wretched.
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