Cumque rex perfidus nullatenus precibus illius assensum praeberet, qui totam eius gentem a parvo usque ad magnum delere atque exterminare decreverat, respexit ille ad divinae auxilium pietatis, quo ab impietate barbarica posset eripi: votoque se obligans: Si paganus, inquit, nescit accipere nostra donaria, offeramus ei qui novit, Domino Deo nostro.
And when the unbelieving king yielded nothing in any way to his petition, having determined utterly to root out and destroy the whole nation from the highest to the lowest, Oswy turned him to look for the help of divine mercy, whereby he might be delivered from the pitilessness of his barbarous enemy: and binding himself by a vow he saith: Sith the heathen knoweth not how to take our presents, let us offer them to him that knoweth, the Lord our God.
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