Wīf gecrȳned mid blēdum stent on stillum clēofunge, hire hand līþe restende on mūþe lēon. Hēo ne nīet þæt micel nīeten tō būgenne. Mā temeþ hire smylte andweardnes þā wildnesse þe innan bēgra libbeþ. Hire bēages blōstman sind swā hnesce swā nīwe līn, and hire gebǣre spricþ hlūddor þonne ǣnig hrēam. Hēr nis mægen hlūd oþþe rēþe, ac geþyldig, nēah ungesewen, swā smēale swā sēo stilnes þe ofer rūm settaþ þonne sum dēorwyrþe biþ gedōn.
On geslīpenum metebēode bītt snid spongeciceles on porselendisce. Hē is lyftig, mid crūme swā smēale þæt hē nēah flēogeþ. Lāra tō þissum cynne ciceles habbaþ þā woruld gefaren, lēofe for þȳ þe hīe frēols clypian magon mid þām līþostum andweorce āna: melu, ǣgru, lȳtel swēte, and hwīlum grāting of rinde wyrtūnwæstmes. Se cicel nimþ his naman of clāþe þe ǣrest on wyrcstōwum Paris wæs sponen, clāþ weorþ for his lēohtnesse, wered on midsumere mid cildum and mid plegendum. Seamstrian gaderodon hine on gedrēfum cēapstōwum, and fealdodon hine on smēale lagas tō hræglum þe styredon swā hwisprung wiþ þā hȳd.
Gearwung swylces ciceles þearf geþyldes and carfulles hrinenes. Man sceal æghwiþu swingan oþþæt hīe stearce hēapas wyrcaþ, and þonne hīe on þæt gemeng fealdan tō healdanne ǣlcne lyftigne bollan gehālne. Cneorissa bæcera habbaþ þisne þēaw gedōn, of ealdum engliscum cycenum tō nīwum burgboldum, wyrcende cicelas þe þyncaþ hnescesse morgens tō fōnne. Hwīlum smæcciaþ hīredas þās smeamettas mid hinte citres, and fyllaþ þæt hām mid stence þe ealle tō bēode clypaþ.
Begeondan cycenēagþȳrele, on lenctenwyrtūne, gaderiaþ primrosas andlang weges, heora andwlitan tō sunnan āhōfene. On ealdum ortgeardum onginnaþ wæstmtrēow blōwman, heora blēda blāce and nēah þurhsīene. Eorþtilian on wearmum denum gaderiaþ þone wæstm, and healdaþ hine carfullīce þæt his swētnes þurh þā cōlran mōnþas wunige. Þæs ortgeardes līþe morgen healdaþ gemynd stillre strengu: gaderiendas gānde þurh rǣwa mid geþēawedum handum, ǣlc gebǣre gemyndig and unhræd.
Geond stǣr hæfþ þes blēo stille anginn and līþe wendunga gemearcod. On Venetianiscum morgenne wealceþ mist ofer canālum, līþende þǣre byrig heardran ecga, and behāt dæg þe dǣl and dǣl ontȳnþ. On Frenciscum cycenum sceafþ cōc rindsmæcc of gepluccodum wæstme, þā loccas feallende on bolle swētes tō stencenne þā lyft. Scēawbēod is mid dǣle smēales clāþes bewrogen, his fealdas fōnde þæt morgenlēoht, and bēodende gefēlednesse endebyrdnesse and wlites tō anginne dæges. Ēac þæt weder werþ hwīlum þis hīw: æfter nihte rēnes āhebbap wolcnu, and sēo woruld biþ hrinen mid scīman þe hyht eft settaþ būtan worde.
Tōdæg meaht þū cēosan lēohtne cicel tō bacenne and hine dǣlan mid þām þe þū carast, oþþe sweorclāþ of þām hnescan clāþe werian þā hwīle þe þū ūt stæpst. Þū meaht þā ǣrestan blōstman of þīnum wyrtūne gaderian and hīe on crocc endebyrdan, oþþe tīd āspendan þīne līn tō fealdanne, ǣlcne wrinclan mid carfulnesse smēþende. On þissum lȳtlum wegum begǣst þū þā stillan strengu þe þā woruld sciepþ: stille, līþe, and þurhwuniende.
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