Se rīdere færþ forþ, and his glōfode hand healdþ ānfealde blōstme, blāce swā se lēoht þe betwēonan twām feorrum torrum birst. Se lyft is ceald and ungestille, swā ealle þing bīden ǣrendes þe wendþ þæt þe hīe witon. Behindan him styrþ sēo tūn: hrōfas glintaþ mid dēawe, geatu cearciaþ tō horse fōtlæste. Þæt land þyncþ āhangen æt ecge nihte, þǣr þæt ealde hīw līfes tōmilt, and sum nīwe, unnemned, onginnþ on þǣre stilnesse tō weorþanne.
Of ēaste cymþ se dæg, ǣrest swā hlīsa, siþþan swā se glēd þe ofer grāfas and ēa crȳpþ. Hēr is wæstm on hefigum clustrum, his rind gemearcod mid ealdum cēapwegum and mid handum þāra þe hine þurh hæfenas fullne wyrta bǣron. On spellum scrēad ān cwēnþing þis wæstm, and se stenc gefylde swīgende rūm, and tācnode ende sorges. His flǣsc, tōdǣled and swēte, is þæt þe wegfarende æt wega tōdǣlum dǣlaþ, and þæt þe cild on morgenum symbela gripaþ. Sēo rind, pytted and biter, is on sealternum gesoden, geþyld þe gehealdþ, and gemyngaþ þæt endas magon bēon geworhte tō etenne. On wintra cycenum hangþ þis wæstm on ēagþȳrlum, and nimþ þā unstrangan sunnan, and behāt þæt wærmþ eft cymþ.
Stōw is nēah þǣre sǣ, þǣr grāfas andswariaþ þǣre tīde wendunge. Hēr gaderiaþ bladu and feallaþ, and wrīhaþ þā eorþan on þām æfterfylge hærfestes. Þæt folc gaderaþ æt ǣrestum lēohte, leapas on handa, tō gaderienne þæt þe ofer is. Hīe libbaþ be ymbhwyrfte giefunge and forlætunge, and witon þæt ālc gaderung is ānlīce mā þe se ealda wæstm is āweg. Spell gāþ betwēonan him, sagas scipa hefigra mid cistum, þe sealtwæter and stormas oferfōron, and þæt wæstm bǣron swā gafol and hyht. On cēapstōwum sind drȳge blōstman on clāþ gedrungene, and ymbe sculdru bewundene, tācn þæt þæt gēar gewend is.
Þonne se heofon æt þām orierde birnþ, bindaþ fisceras līnan and bētaþ nett, and lociāþ þā hwīle þe se weder of þunore tō smyltnesse wendþ. Scipmenn rǣddon hwīlum þæs heofones hīw tō rǣdenne þæs nīehstan windes ēst oþþe warnunge. Hit wæs tācn þæt se lāf stormes forþgewiten wæs, and þæt sēo sǣ sōna gesund wǣre tō fære. On heora wederbiterum bōcum mearcaþ ān innung þone morgen æfter micelre wendunge: lēoht bærst, līþe. Sēo woruld wæs ōþer, and þēah swā micel þæt ilce. Þus dēþ ende ānes þinges rūm þām nīehstan hīwe, stōw þǣr ungewiss is sweotol, and þæt nīehste færeld onginnþ.
On trēowenan bēode sett sum mann boll dǣla, þæt innewefod wærlīce ātogen, and bēod swæcc ǣgþer ge scearpne ge swētne. On þǣre cycene screpaþ rind on dāh, and fylþ þone lyft mid gemynde and onbīde. Cild, þe rēgn æt ēagþȳrele lociāþ, stingaþ clofe on þæs wæstmes hȳd, and wyrcaþ mynet tō āhōnne ofer þā duru. Þis sind lȳtle gebǣru, wegas tō dōnne þā wendendan worulde hrīnendlīce, and tō ārianne þā tīd þonne ān hīw tōmilt and ōþer stillulīce ætīewþ.
Þū meaht winterwæstm scrēadan and his rind on þām wyrtūne strēgan, and þē selfum tācnian þæt ealde caru magon weorþan sum nīwe þing. Wrīt ǣrendgewrit æt dægrēde, and nemne hwæt geendod is and hwæt þū hopast onginnan, and bedyf hit under fæt blōstmana. Hrēr geþicgede rind on þīnne hlāf, and dǣl hine mid þām þe his weg þīnne nū oferfærþ. Āhōh pomander ofer þīnre dura, and lǣt his stenc þē gemynegian þæt ālc ende is ēac fær.
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