Sēo carte ætīewþ engel gēotende wæter of ānum fæt on ōþer, standende mid ānum fōte on smalum pōle and ānum fōte on drȳgum lande. Þæt weorc is slāw, ælc dropa wendende of calice tō calice, carful dǣd emnetes. On þām heofonrima windeþ smal pæþ tō feorrum hrycge beorga, and behāt færeld þe bitt geþyld and stæþige hand. Ælc andwist, fæt and wæter and grund and pæþ, gemyndgaþ þā stōwa þǣr stillu gemengung biþ, stōwa þǣr smælnes mā mæg þonne wæfersȳn.
On ealdum cicenum hangaþ melusaccas on trēowenum hōcum, hira clāþ hnesce of manigum gēarum brūces. Þā saccas sind strange and ānfealde, berende mearca cornes þe on feorrum feldum wæs gemalen and ofer mīla geboren. Innan tūnhūse openiaþ swelce saccas handa þe hlāfweorc cūþon, and þæt melu biþ āseohte on bolla, gemenged wiþ wæter of þǣre wylle, and under līnclāþe tō rīsenne lǣten. Se clāþ, gewefen be wīfum þāra fingras cūþon þæs webbes ryne, is lēoht wiþ þone dāh, scild wiþ dūst and gīfre ȳcan. On þissum cicenum setlaþ dæghwāmlīc gewinn on līþne þēaw: tō metenne, tō gēotenne, tō cnēdenne, tō restenne. Þǣr is frōfor on gelōmnesse, and on þǣre stilnesse betwēonan weorcum wendeþ se hlāfdāh. Sēo wendung nis nā hlūd oþþe færlic, ac gewiss.
Begeondan þæs tūnhūses duru mæg se dæg bēon lēohtes niþeres and mildre lyfte. On openum feldum etaþ scēap and ceowaþ, hira fell þicce and unefstod. Sēo lyft bereþ stenc gerīpodes hwǣtes and feorr swēg strēames þe gǣþ ofer smēþum stānum. On swelcum dagum nis þæt weder heard ne scearp. Þǣr is andgiet stillre genihtsumesse, wolcnu þynne strecende, and se heofon giefende līþe emne lēoht. Þis is þæt weder þe lāþaþ menn ūt, tō sittanne on gewefenre matan, tō sceorfanne pīsan oþþe tō þrǣdenne bēana tō æfenmete, oþþe ān tō sceawienne wolcnu drīfan. Sēo hwīl bitt nāht ofermōdiges, ac andweardnesse and willan tō gemengenne þæt inre wiþ þā ūtanweardan woruld, swā se engel mengþ wæter.
Elles, on þām hordern, restaþ ræwa saccas be windlum eorþæppla and cipa. Þǣr sind rāpas gārlēaces, and scēafas drȳgra wyrta mid twīge gebundene. Þā melusaccas, eft, weorþaþ līne gebeorges wiþ hungor, behāt þæt hlāf and fōda nǣfre feorr ne sind. On tūnum wrixledon cēapmenn hwīlum þās saccas wiþ ǣgru, oþþe lengþe hāmāspunnenes wulles, hira handa wrixlende þæt þe ānfeald wæs and þēah nēodþearf. Se sacclāþ wearþ siþþan tō ōþrum brūce gewend: āsywod on sculderhrægl, dūstclāþ, oþþe coddas tō cildes syrce. Se clāþ wunaþ, and bereþ mid him stenc cornes and weorces, and gemynd handa þe drīfon and fealdodon, ā sēcende tō gegaderienne þæt man hæfþ wiþ þæt man þearf.
Æt ecge begānes landes lǣt pæþ, mid fōtstæpum gehroren, ofer līþe hlīþas, ymbe feld, and betwēonan scēafum drȳges gærsses. Hēr mæg wegfarend bīdan tō etenne hlafes rinde, and þone hlāf eft bewindan on þām cūþan clāþe ǣr hē forþ gā. Þæt færeld is ēadmōd, ac se pæþ is gewiss, gemearcod mid stillre anrǣdnesse þāra þe ǣr cōmon. Hit is land geþyldigre wendunge, sibbe findendre þurh gemengunge, getrīewendre þām gewunelīcan þæt hit sum fæst þing giefe.
Tōdæg mæg mann melusacces clāþ lecgan tō bēodhrægle tē, oþþe hine brūcan tō bewindenne nīwbacenne hlāf. Mann mæg þone clāþ smēþian ofer bolster and on æfentīde restan, oþþe gān under heofone þæs lēoht smēþe þyncþ wiþ þā hȳd. Tō begānne gemengunge is tō findenne emnet on dæghwāmlīcum þingum: tō gegaderienne, tō gemengenne, tō restenne, and tō farenne.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Fealu.
Lucky Color: Beige — #F5F5DCStill weorc and līþe weder bringaþ þone dæg on emnet.