Dum ergo is ex persecutore factus esset collega veritatis et fidei, ac iacente ferro esset inter carnifices iusta cunctatio, montem cum turbis reverentissimus Dei confessor ascendit: qui opportune laetus, gratia decentissima, quingentis fere passibus ab harena situs est, variis herbarum floribus depictus, immo usquequaque vestitus, in quo nihil repente arduum, nihil praeceps, nihil abruptum, quem lateribus longe lateque deductum in modum aequoris natura complanat, dignum videlicet eum, pro insita sibi specie venustatis, iam olim reddens qui beati martyris cruore dicaretur.
When therefore it fell that this man was made a fellow of the truth and faith whereof before he was persecutor, and the executioners were right staggered over the sword lying on the ground before them, the most reverend confessor of God climbed a hill with the people there assembled: which hill, fitly gay and comely with excellent beauty, was about half a mile from the appointed place, and was garnished, indeed clothed everywhere, with divers flowering herbs; whereon was no sudden rise, nothing steep, nothing sheer, but the sides lengthways and breadth-ways were drawn by nature into the fashion of a smooth slope, plainly rendering it worthy and meet from of old (for its delectable natural grace) to be sanctified with the blood of the blessed martyr.
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