Nam mutato repente habitu saeculari, monasterium petiit, in quo tanta perfectionis gratia coepit conversari, ut, sicut ipse postea flendo solebat adtestari, animo illius labentia cuncta subteressent, ut rebus omnibus quae volvuntur emineret, ut nulla nisi caelestia cogitare soleret, ut etiam retentus corpore ipsa iam carnis claustra contemplatione transiret, ut mortem quoque, quae pene cunctis poena est, videlicet ut ingressum vitae et laboris sui praemium amaret.
For changing suddenly his secular habit he went into a monastery, where he began to live in such grace of perfection, that unto his mind (as often after he was wont to witness with weeping tears) all transitory things were in the lower place, that he was lifted above all things that are subject unto change, that he was wont to think of nothing but heavenly things, that, even though clogged with the body, he already by contemplation did pass the very barriers of the flesh, and that he loved death also (which to almost all men is a punishment) as being certes an entrance of life to him and reward of his labour.
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