Lēo crȳpþ under wīfes handa, his manu unstill, hire gripe nā leng līþe ac þrūht mid nīede. Sēo sceawunge mǣnde hwīlum geþyld and still geweald. Nū heardaþ se gewinn, and þæs miclan nīetenes orþ wierþ tōsliten. Se hring betwēonan willan and wildnesse tōgǣþ. Swā hēo mā þringþ, swā trumra biþ se wiþerstandennes, swā se nīetengāst hine selfne gaderige, nā on geþwǣrnesse, ac wiþ hire gewealde.
Lange ǣr fōron cēapmenn þurh Levantiscum burgum mid pūsum cochineales, dēorwyrþra scillnīetena of feorrum muntum. Þās lȳtelan, dīeglan nīetenu, ādrȳgde and gegrundene, heoldon mægen tō dēagenne seolcweb oþþe prēostes fnæd mid sumum seldnan and langsuman. Geond þā Wendelsǣ wylodon dēagwyrhtan þā carmincicelas on mæstlingcitelum, bīdende þā rihtan tīd tō wǣtenne þā wulle. Clāþ cōm forþ gedrēnced and hefig, blēo cynelicra beboda and bidda ūtlagena. Þes clāþ næs nā wlite āna. Hē sette hine selfne on, and bodode his race mid ǣlcum fealde and mid ǣlcum seame.
On wyrtūnum feorr fram dēaghūsum tōclufon granatæpplas on wegstrǣtstānum, heora sǣd scīnende swā lȳtle heortan. Þām ealdan mōde mearcod heora wōs cyn mearce, betwēonan worulde ufan and þǣre behȳdedan worulde niþer. On frēolsdagum þrȳcdon cōcas þā sǣd tō seale, and lēton hit ofer gebrǣdne lamb oþþe on deorc wīn yrnan, smæcc þe wunode and wiþsōc tō bēonne forgiten. Se wæstm wæs ǣgþer blētsung and warnung: welignes, ac ēac mearc þe ne wēscþ ēaþe of hȳde.
Wolcnu gaderiaþ hwīlum on lættan æfenne, nēahe and geswollene, and behātaþ storm þe ne tōberst. Sēo lyft þringþ niþer, þicce and unbūgende, and duru hrȳtaþ on heora henglum. Wīf belūcaþ heora scytelsas, ac se wind fint þēah weg þurh þā cīnas, and styreþ þā gebrogdenan wahriftu. On swylcum wedere slītaþ mōd. Sēo cycene wierþ hāt mid geflite, and se bēodclāþ, hwīlum frēsc of þwǣle, berþ mearc āgotenes calices, lēas tīma gemǣrsod mid dæges tīgan.
Tācen engliscra scōlmanna, hōd gelīned mid clāþe of þām feorrum wyrcstōwum, mǣnde mā þonne ānfeald weorþscipe. Hit wæs tācen þurhwununge, gewitnes þæt se leornere costnung and steore þurhwunode, and hwæþere hint gewinnes tō ofercumenne þone inneran lēon. Þēah, swā hefigra se reaf, swā mā þrēade hē tō ceorfanne æt þām sweoran, and gemyndgode þone weriend þæs gafoles willan and þæs frēcnes tō fæste tō healdanne his āgenne endemærc.
Āt hām sitt lȳtel trēowen box on heorþofer, gefylled mid inseglweaxe. On earfoþum dagum mæg man candel ontendan, sticcan weaxes meltan, and inseglhring on þone pōl þrȳcan, and lætan belūcenesse ærendgewrites tō dǣde willan weorþan. On cycene mæg hrērung crocces granatseales ofer līþre hǣte unstille handa stilian and smyltnesse lāþian. Āt cēape bīd æt webbe þǣr seolcþrǣdas on gemearcode sweorclāþas sind gecnottode, and smeaga ānne ofer þīnum sculdrum tō worpenne, nā swā byrne, ac swā līþe heft tō gemyndgienne þē geþyldes. Gif se heofon hefig þyncþ, læt þone storm forþgān ǣr þū sprece þæt þe earfoþe is.
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Lucky Color: Crimson — #DC143CLæt willan mid hnesnesse bēon gemetgodne, and find strengu on būgunge.