Tempore, inquit, mortalitatis quae Brittaniam Hiberniamque lata strage vastavit, percussus est eiusdem clade pestis inter alios scholasticus quidam de gente Scottorum, doctus quidem vir studio literarum, sed erga curam perpetuae suae salvationis nihil omnino studii et industriae gerens: qui cum se morti proximum videret, timere coepit et pavere, ne mox mortuus, ob merita scelerum ad inferni claustra raperetur: clamavitque me, cum essem in vicino positus, et inter aegra tremens suspiria, flebili voce talia mecum querebatur: Vides, inquit, quia iamiamque crescente corporis molestia ad articulum subeundae mortis compellor: nec dubito me post mortem corporis statim ad perpetuam animae mortem rapiendum, ac infernalibus subdendum esse tormentis: qui tempore non pauco inter studia divinae lectionis, vitiorum potius implicamentis quam divinis solebam servire mandatis.
In a time of mortal sickness, said he, which wasted Britain and Ireland with a wide havock, a certain scholar of the Scottish nation was stricken amongst other with the calamity of the same plague, a man skilful certes in the study of learning, but one that used no diligence and labour at all for the care of his own everlasting salvation: who, when he saw himself to be at deaths door, began to fear and quake, lest being shortly dead he should, as his lewd life deserved, be hurried away to the dungeons of hell: and therewith he cried to me (as I was lodged not far off), and trembling in the midst of sorrowful sighs, with a lamentable voice made thus his moan in my company: You see, quoth he, that at this very time by the increase of my bodily grief I am being driven to the point of meeting death: and I doubt not that after the death of the body I must be hurried away to the everlasting death of the soul, and endure the torments of hell: I who no small time occupied in study of reading Holy Writ was accustomed to be a slave to the entanglements of sin rather than be obedient to the commandments of God.
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