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" When the Tuesday before the Ascension of our Lord came, he began to suffer still more in his breath, and a small swelling appeared in his feet ; but he passed all that day and dictated... "
The Complete Works of Venerable Bede: Life, poems, letters, etc - Page lxxxi
by Saint Bede (the Venerable) - 1843
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Alfred the Great, His Life and Times

George Frederick Bosworth - 1914 - 230 pages
...translate the Gospel of St. John into English, and so anxious was he to do it well, that he said, " I will not have my pupils read a falsehood, nor labour therein without profit after my death." A little before Ascension-tide he became worse, but still remained cheerful. " Go on quickly," he said,...
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