that He would have mercy on the dead
and the possessed with devils, and help their souls.
Then he went out again to the miserable madmen,
and in the Lord's name put the devils to flight
out of the possessed workmen, and they were healed.
Then he commanded to bear into his oratory
the corpse of the departed that the fiend had killed,
and kept the vigil all night by the madman's corpse,
and bade that in the morning mass should be said for his soul,
and raised the dead man through the Lord's might,
and gave orders to warn him, if he wished to live,
that he should never be seen in the monastery again
after the present day whereon he arose from the dead.
So all the work of the monastery was ended within eight years,
and also hallowed with high solemnity.
Then Florus remembered what he had at first intended,
and what he had vowed to God when he began the monastery,
and besought leave for himself from his royal master,
that he might turn from the deceitful riches,
and dwell in the monastery which he had wrought,
and spend his life according to Maurus' direction,
and live holily in God's service,
and so merit the bliss eternal.
So the king granted the thane his wish,
though he could hardly find it in his mind
to let so dear a friend go from him,
and said, that he himself desired to see the place,
and to be present there when he laid aside his beard [received the tonsure].
After these things, Florus went to the monastery,
and his royal master came even as they had said,
and prayed that he might be their brother for [the love of] God,
and gave certain property to the holy place,
and spake affably to all the monks,
but especially, however, to Maurus in particular,
and promised that he would be friendly to them all ;
