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And when I was thirty year old and a half, God sentme a bodily sickness in the which I lay three daysand three nights; and on the fourth night I took allmy rites of holy church, and went not to have liventill day. And after this I lay two days and two nights;and on the third night I weened oftentimes to havepassed, and so weened they that were with me.And yet in this I felt a great loathsomeness to die,but for nothing that was on earth that me liketh tolive for...But it was for I would have lived to haveloved God better and longer time, that I might bythe grace of that living have the more knowing andloving of God in the bliss of heaven.

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