Qui cum iussis pontificalibus obtemperantes, memoratum opus adgredi coepissent, iamque aliquantulum itineris confecissent, perculsi timore inerti, redire domum potius, quam barbaram, feram, incredulamque gentem, cuius ne linguam quidem nossent, adire cogitabant, et hoc esse tutius communi consilio decernebant.
Which obeying the bishops commandment, when they began to take the said enterprise in hand and had already travelled some small part of the way, being stricken with sluggish cowardice bethought themselves it should be better for them to return home again than to go unto that barbarous, savage and unbelieving nation whose language even they knew not, and this by common consent they determined to do, as being the more sure way.
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