Anno autem sequente venit in provinciam quidam sicarius, vocabulo Eumer, missus a rege Occidentalium Saxonum, nomine Cuichelmo, sperans se regem Aeduinum regno simul et vita privaturum: qui habebat sicam bicipitem toxicatam; ut si ferri vulnus minus ad mortem regis sufficeret, peste iuvaretur veneni.
Now in the following year there came into this province a desperate ruffian named Eumer (sent by Cwichelm, king of the West Saxons), with the hope to dispatch king Edwin of his kingdom and life at the same time; and this man had a double-edged short sword to this intent dipped in poison, that if the stroke of the sword were not forceable enough to kill the king out of hand, yet it might be helped forward with the infection of the poison.
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