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 into wine, of which a sick man anon tasted and received anon health, and also did many other miracles. And when his last days approached, and he was grieved by long infirmity, then he made himself to be laid upon the bare ground, and did do call all the friars that were there, and when they were all present he blessed them. And like as our Lord fed his disciples at supper on Shere-Thursday, he gave to each of them a morsel of bread, and warned them, as he was wont to do, to give laud to their Maker. And the very death which is to all men horrible and hateful he admonished them to praise it; and also he warned and admonished death to come to him, and said: 'Death, my sister, welcome be thou'; and when he came at the last hour he slept in our Lord. Of whom a friar saw the soul in the manner of a star, like to the moon in quantity and to the sun in clearness.

There was a friar named Augustin, which was minister and servant in the Labour of the Earth, and as he was in his last end, and had lost his speech, he escried suddenly and said: 'Abide me, father, abide, I shall go with thee.' Then the friars demanded him what he said, and he said: 'See ye not our father Francis that goeth unto heaven?' and anon he slept in peace, and followed his holy father.