Wīf bīegþ ofer þone lēon, hire hrinen smylt, hire gesihþ still. Se hring gewefenra blōstmena rest on hire fexe, nā cynehelm and nā byrne, ac bēag gelagod mid blēdum and mid geþylde. Hēo ne nīet þæs lēon ceaflas mid mægne tō belūcenne. Mā þrȳcaþ hire fingras līþe æt hyrnum his mūþes, still lādfæstnes, nā ofermōd. Tō bēonne strang nis ā tō bēonne hlūd. Nīed mæg still bēon, orþ þe þæt wilde on stilnesse styreþ. Sēo lyft ymbe hīe is wearm and swēte, swā hwǣr gehende ortgeard tō fulnesse cume.
On sūþum denum on lættan sumere flōwaþ persocortgeardas ofer wealcendum hyllum. Þā wæstmas hangap hefige, heora hȳd hnesce tō hrīnenne, hwisprung feluwes on handa. Cild gaderiaþ under þām bogum, sēo sunne heora andwlitan dǣlende þā hwīle þe hīe ūp rǣcaþ. Tō pluccienne rīpne persoc þearf gewegenre geþylde: wrīþ līþe, gefēl þā tīd þonne se stela ālǣt, and ne hræd næfre þone wæstm of trēowe. On cycenum þe on porticas ontȳnaþ, snīþaþ cōcas þæt flǣsc on cloddas, þæt wōs dripende on trēowene snīdbord. Of þissum biþ smeamett geworht, æghwiþu tō wolcnum geswungen, swēte carfullīce gefealdod, and cloddas wæstmes innan geþȳd. Sēo gemengednes biþ mid spone ofer cicelum āgoten and gebacen, rīsende on lyftige hēapas. Þonne hīe tōbrocene sind, þonne flīehþ smæl stēampūf ūt, welig mid gemynde sunnwærmra ortgearda.
Se cēap þissera wæstma is eald. Cēapstōwa on sceade þāra munta lecgaþ windla, ǣlc dūnnig hring on strēawe gebeorhtod. On frēolsmorgren cumaþ wīf ǣr mid windlum ofer elnbogum āworpenum, heora scyrtelas hrīnende gewederode stānlānas. Bæceras hēaldaþ þone wæstm on handflatum, rīpnesse be stence and be giefe metende. Hīe bringaþ þā frēscostan tō heora ofnum, þǣr wǣtme heorþes swētnesse ortgeardes mēteþ. On cōle dægrēdes wealceþ līþe mist hwīlum of ēa, and settaþ ofer ortgeardas and ofer tūn, līþende ymbhwyrft hrōfa and trēowa, ādimmende þā woruld under smēalum miste. Hit is still weder, þæs cynnes þe innweardnesse bitt, and slāwe brūcunge sumes lȳtles.
Āt hām cymþ ānfeald līnen clāþ, hwīlum ofer bēod tō middæges mete gelegd, of cyste on gange. His clāþ is þynne, oft þwogen, and gemearcod mid handseowedum rīme, gemyndgende stille æfennas þonne handa nǣdle and þrǣd būtan hræde oþþe ceorunge styredon. Hē is tōsprǣdd under bollum snidenes wæstmes, under tēcalicum, under dæghwāmlīcum gebǣrum ǣlces dæges. Se clāþ, se wæstm, and se cicel dǣlaþ ungesprecene līþnesse, hnesnesse þe nis tō glitienne ac tō frēfrigenne, tō bringenne þā stillan strengu wyrtūna and cycena and handa þe mid carfulnesse wyrcaþ.
Tōdæg meaht þū rīpne persoc on handflatan healdan ǣr þū etst, and gefēlan his heft and his hnesnesse. Þū meaht bīdan tō scēawienne stēam of nīwum cicelum wealcan, oþþe þwogenne līnenne handclāþ beforan þīnum mete lecgan, his wrinclan mid geþyldigum handum smēþende. Þū meaht ūt stæppan æt sunnan ūpgange, and lætan ǣnigne morgenmist ymbe þē settan, his smyltnesse inorþiende.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Persocfealu.
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