Þæs engles crocc slīdeþ, and wæter gȳt ūt, deorciende þæt dūst æt hire fōtum. Þǣr geþyld and slāw gemengung wǣron, findeþ se wǣta nū his āgenne weg, ceorfende pæþ be þǣre ēa nā intō hire. Se geweald līesaþ and āslīdeþ. On þām bēode is se wæterfæt tō gehende þām ecge gesett. Se cicenclāþ is wǣt, bestæned, forgieten. Swelce gesihþa mearciaþ þā hwīle þonne geornfulnes swicaþ and þæt þe tō carfulre gemengunge wæs āboden frēo yrnþ.
Sūþweard, on feldum of wildum gærsse and stāne eft genumen, heoldon wīntrēow hwīlum hira wæstm on stillum emnete, sunne and rēn gemeten, wyrttruman be hætan āfandode. Ac þǣr sind æfentīda þonne þæs heofones hefignes bricþ, and ālīeseþ scūras rēnes þe þā eorþan berēafiaþ, and scēafas sendþ feallende ǣr hira tīde. Wind hrērþ þā lēaf, and se grund wierþ hlēodig mid gefallenum wæstme. On cēapwindlum sind sume gebrȳsde, tōbrecene, sǣd slīdende wiþ þæt trēo. Eorþtilian tōdǣlaþ hrædlīce, healdiende þæt þe man beran mæg, and witende þæt tō micel efestung oþþe tō lȳtel wæcung mæg þone wæstm forspillan.
Geara ǣr bǣron wegfarende sǣd ofer sǣ, on coddum geþæcce, betwēonan næglum, bēanum, and smalum tācnum hāmes. Hīe bǣron hīe, nytende hwæt wolde weaxan þǣr sēo eorþe wæs uncūþ and þǣre ēa pæþ ungewunelic. On nīwum tūnum fundon þās sǣd hira āgen gelimp, spræddende on cicenwyrtūnas, slīdende begeondan hegas, wyrttrumigende þǣr him gelīcode. Þǣr is ā cost ofergytes, tō micel, tō hraþe, oþþe on stōwum ungearwum. Receptas of ealdmōdra bēodum cīgaþ hwīlum tō þām þe nā gȳt rīpe is, oþþe tō þām þe on croccan bersteþ, swæcc ūt fleonde ǣr man hine mæg hōn.
On sūþtūnum, þǣr æfentīdes stormas gaderiaþ mid lȳtlum warnunge, slæhþ rēn tinnen hrōf and leccþ þurh sēamas. Ēagþȳrelu sind open āset, and stenc eorþan gemengþ wiþ gecorfene stelan. Smita gaderiaþ under ēagþȳrelwindlum, dropan strīciende wōge līnan be ealdum tigelum. On swelcum dagum iernaþ cild bærfōt tō gaderienne þæt se wyrtūn āwearp, hira handa clibbege and hira syrcas gemearcode. Se cicen fylþ mid swēge ceorfunge, þā rinda and þā sǣd āswopen, þā hwīle þe sum mann cunnþ genōg tō gehealdanne tō þisse nihtes briwe.
On æfenes stilnesse hangþ trēowen spon of croccan, sealt þiccigende be þām rande. Clāþ, gebrocod tō āhebbenne þone croccan, is on þone bēod gehēapod, gemearcod mid strīcum ǣrrena gōta. Crocc sit open, þæt hlid forgieten, spild on þām bēode. Se mete is nēah gearu, ac nā fullīce þæt þe man wolde, sealtung tō feorr hieldende, swētnes þone broþ oferstīgende. Sum mann hine smæcþ, scēafþ andwlitan, and rǣcþ tō gripe sealtnes tō bringenne hine eft tō emnete.
Tō gaderienne þæt þe āfeoll, mæg man stæppan on þone wyrtūn æfter storme and gaderian þæt þe on grunde wunaþ. Tō eftnimenne andgiet endebyrdnesse, wīp þone bēod clǣnne and sete þæt hlid eft on þæt þe open wæs lǣten. Briw ānfeald sealt of þām þe oferrīpe is, and lǣt nāht tō unspēde gān. Gief þone hnescean wæstm nēahgebūrum, and lǣt cystignesse līþian þǣr gīemen hwīlum slāt.
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