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1    1|    desire, he went to an old friend, the most prudent and venerable
2    1|       that, loving thee as a friend, I would wish thee to end
3    1|     person was, the cleric's friend made this reply regarding
4    1| happen to him, saying, "This friend of mine, who is now going
5    2|   the foresaid Columban, the friend of St. Columba; and not
6    2| myself by oath to serve that friend all the days of my life;
7    2|      when I went to visit my friend King Aldfrid, where the
8    3| bishop in Leinster, the dear friend of Columba, had passed to