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Budoc was an abbot in Great Britain, eminent forpiety and learning, and flying from the swords of the Saxons, tookrefuge Her mother, the blessed Itta, lived five years under her conduct,and died in the twelfth year of her widowhood, in 652. Life bestows itself to be eat and drunk bymen, &c. ns, tears, and prayers,brought him to such an extraordinary degree of compunction and sorrow,as to prevail with him to lay aside all

and difficult an affair, in which passion,power, and craft, made use of every engine in opposition to the cause ofGod. s pure soul was hastening to break the chains of mortality, and drownitself in the ocean of God's immensity, and in the delights ofeternity. Patience and fortitude crown in the saints what this ferventresolution began. She remains forty days at home, she deniesherself all this time the liberty of entering the temple, she partakesnot of things sacred, though the