Bȳme hlīewþ feorr ofer þām wolcnum. Hire stefn, mā bebod þonne sang, wealcaþ ofer þā opene eorþan. Niþer styrþ se grund. Prūhas, healfbebyrgde on gemynde, āgiefaþ heora slǣpendan. Menn arīsaþ, andwlitan āhafene, handa rǣcende tō þām lyfte. Sēo lāþung nis līþe. Hēo tōscēad þone heofon and tēhþ þæt þe behȳded wæs on dæglēoht. On þisse stilnesse is sēo clypung ǣgþer ge dōm ge edniwung, tīd þonne sēo woruld bitt hire ealdan spell ūp standan and heora selfum andswarian.
Hwǣr ymbwindaþ gemynd ealdes gūþfanan on þām winde. Hwīlum wæs hē boren æt foran herga, his clāþ dēop and welig wiþ þæt dūst, and cīgde cempan tō gymene on morgenes gehnāste. Ofer gearhund lǣddon swelce fanan fær æfter sige þurh ceastra strǣta, heora clāþ gemearcod of rēgne and of hrīnungum stǣre handa. Þā þe under him fōron gefrēddon behāt wendunge and þā byrþenne þe hēo bringþ. Æt ecgum þæs feldes hȳdþ se kermescefer on ācum þǣre Wendelsǣ, his heard scell gecorēnod cēapmannum. His dīegelnes is goldsmīþcræft þe of Persiscum cēapstōwum tō Venetiscum dēaghūsum fōr, and fylde lāmcroccas þe dropmǣlum āguton on wellende fatu. Þā sēo bȳme ofer þām wolcnum hlīewþ, þyncþ hēo swēgan þā ealdan færeld: cēapmenn on þām Sīdenwege, heora handa gemǣlede þā hwīle þe hīe mynet tellaþ, dēageras þryccende wǣte wulle on tunnas ǣr hēo on winde drȳgeþ.
Hrægl, nīwlīce þwogen and gȳt wǣt of þǣre ēa, swingþ on līne on ceastercafertūne. His fealda gemunaþ hrægl ealdra prēosta and þā bēagas þe leorneras bǣron on dæge heora sige. Swelc clāþ, gemearcod mid gewinne and mid þēnunge, healdþ gemynd handa þe hine of wætere āhōfon and āwrungon, þe hine smēþodon ǣr þām fȳre þæt his andwlite scāne. Sēo clypung þe þā slǣpendan āwecþ nis ānlīce þām miclum and þām mihtigum, ac þām þe heora tōl scearpe hēoldon on stillum rūmum, þǣre webban be hire weftāne, þām hȳdwyrhtan on þām cōlan celere, þǣre nǣdlwyrhtan rǣdendre hīw granatæpples on fnæde brȳdhrægles.
Wæstm is þe æt hærfeste tōbirst, his hȳd þicce and leþeren, innan geþrungen mid gimlīcum sǣdum and clibendum sēawe. On symbeldagum iernaþ cild þurh þone orceard tō gaderienne swelcne wæstm, and mǣlaþ heora wrīstas and weleras þā hwīle þe hleahtor þā bōgas sceacaþ. Sēo bȳme ofer þām wolcnum þyncþ on swelcum tīdum hringan, þonne þæt gewunelīce mid þēnunge gehladen biþ, þonne sēo woruld ǣgþer ge gymene ge þanc bītt. Stenc gewyrtes wīnes ymlendaþ æfter þām gereorde, and on þǣre cycene standaþ mortere and pilstampe, clibende of grindunge saffron and bergena, gemynd wendunge, flǣsc tō dēage, sēaw tō clāþe, gewinn tō blisse.
Tōdæg mæg mann þæt hīredes bēodclāþ of his ceste āhebban and þone bēod settan swā tō ārweorþum cumum gearwigende, oþþe gān tō cēapstōwe and ceosan handful rīpes wæstmes tō offrunge þæs dæges behāte. Mann mæg ǣrendgewrit wrītan on hefigum leafe, gemunende tīd þonne insegl on weax gedrēfde wǣron, and sendan hit þām þe þū his stefne wana bist. Oþþe, on stilnesse morgenes, glenca þā ealdan mæstlingbȳme þe on borde forgieten sitt, and lǣt hire swēg hlīewan, þēah ānlīce þām fuglum būtan þām ēagþȳrele.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Dēopbasu.
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