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 1 Text|         for the space of sixteen years, amid innumerable perils
 2 Text|        at the age of twenty five years he despised a transitory
 3 Text|          and when he had for two years been instructed in the suitable
 4 Text|      ruled the monastery for two years; and then successfully,
 5 Text| continued it till his death four years after. He was a man of noble
 6 Text|         hymn. He was twenty-four years old when he entered the
 7 Text| monastery; he lived there twelve years, during seven of which he
 8 Text|         upon him for three whole years; so that when he was dead
 9 Text|        as I have stated, sixteen years: the first eight alone,
10 Text|     these was his colleague four years; the second, three; the
11 Text|    monastery of St. Paul's seven years; and, afterwards, ably governed,
12 Text|    governed, during twenty-eight years, both these monasteries;
13 Text|          He had also been twelve years in priest's orders. He was
14 Text|          After more s than forty years of care and toil, during
15 Text|        Ceolfrid was seventy-four years old when he died: forty
16 Text|        when he died: forty seven years he had been in priest's