Þæt wīf on þǣre cartan mētte hwīlum þone lēon mid openum handflatum, hire stille hrinen restende on ceaflum þæs nīetenes. Nū tīehþ hire gripe. Hire cnucla tīgiaþ swā hēo hire bebodu ætīewan sceole. Þæs lēon orþ wierþ smæl, and se stede betwēonan menniscum and nīetene wierþ lǣsse getrēow, mā costnung. On stilnesse æfter is gefēlednes gewinnes þe clypaþ þurh mā þonne flǣsc, gemynd wiþerstandnesse on eallum þingum þe ofer heora gecynd sind genīeded.
On hliþum Tuscany is se grund þicce mid syndrigre eorþan. Gēarhundum habbaþ handa spada on þās eorþan ādrifene, ūt scrāppende þone geþryccedan lām under elebēamum and sunnblecedum stāne, ūp tēonde þā hefigan cloddas þe cræftigan, ǣþelcræftigan, and mēteras hwīlum be naman ealdre byrig clypodon. Þurh nearwe strǣta þǣre byrig bǣron mūlas hwīlum pūsa gehlædene mid þǣre eorþan, āmǣnede tō wyrcstōwum þǣr hēo wolde bēon gehǣted, gegrund, āseht, and on croccum geheald. Ǣlc crocc wæs sum ǣgþer ānfeald and nēodþearflic: behāt blēoes and langsumnesse tō wāgum capella, tō reafum hālgena, tō scyrtelum harlequina. Se blēo wæs ǣgþer ēadmōd and weorþ, offrung of lande þe carfull weorc bæd, fȳr and geþyld, tō ætīewenne his heortan.
Menn timbrodon ēac mid þissere eorþan. Tigelas of þām ilcan lāme gesceapene wǣron on bogas and on stīpelas āhēapode, heora brerd āwerede mid gēarhundum rēnes and handa. On cycenum grundon morteras of gebacenum lāme gecorfene pipor and sealt, ūt grindende lȳtle dǣda gearwunge tō dæghwāmlicum hlāfe. Þǣr wæs ā gefēlednes þæt þēos eorþe næs nā under fōtum āna, ac dǣl gewinnes þæs līchaman, þring handflatan on dāh, scieppung tigela tō hrōfe, þicce rīm crocces tō þurstigum weolorum āhafen.
Hwīlum fylde se heofon ofer þǣre byrig mid storme þe oferslege and cāfertūnas mid smēalum, dūstegum dūste bewreah. On þissum dagum þrang sēo lyft niþer, hefig and nēah, þæs cynnes weder þe dēþ þæt mann wilnaþ ǣlc scytels and ǣlce duru tō ontȳnenne. Ac oft wæs sēo ǣreste andswaru þæt ōþer: tō inseglienne þæt hūs and tō styþienne wiþ þām grite, tō swāpenne ǣfre heardor wiþ þǣre gaderiendan filman. Swā mā þæt dūst wæs gescræpen, swā māra wæs gefēlednes īdelnesse, oþþæt, on lættan æfenstilnesse, wolde hwā ālǣtan and ūt stæppan, handa opene æt sīdum feallende, āna inorþiende stenc eorþenes rēnes.
On langre stǣre blēocēapes cīddon cēapmenn and heoldon heora fruman mid anda. Sume scōpon gewritu, and lēton lēase of lǣssum hyllum ādelfede forþgān, and geflit blēowon on dimlīhtum bæcrūmum lǣcedōmhūsa. Ofer tīd wearþ þǣre byrig nama scortnes stearcnesse, mearc þæs þe þurhwunaþ þonne eall ōþer is āscræpen. Ac ā sceolde þæt andweorc self bēon gelāþod, nā genīeded. Tō heard ādrifen, wolde hit molsnian oþþe dimmian, and næfre his dēopnesse gieldan.
Tōdæg mæg mann cēosan tō settanne handa on cōlne lām, oþþe hlāf cnedan mid slāwum willan. Hīe magon þone flōr swāpan and þonne bīdan, and lætan þā endemestan lāstas dūstes settan þǣr hīe willaþ. Lȳtel crocc mid hlide on scealfe mæg bēon ontȳned and gewundrod for þām þe hē heald, and þonne līþe belocen, mid āre þæs þe geþyld forþbringþ.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Eorþbrūn.
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