Cynestōl rīseþ on dimmum cleofan, gesett on stapole trēowes of heortan rēnþwogenes wudu. Þā sceancan sind on gelīcnesse clīþendra wyrttruma gegræfene, and of heora gripe hangiaþ racenteaga, gesmiþode nā tō bindenne ac tō þrēagenne. On middan blæcþ þæcele, hire lēoht wiþ þā ealdan bēamas āweorpende. Þǣr is hāt, and ēac stenc hwætes swētes and biteres, hwæt þe on þā stānas sīhp and þā unrōtnesse līþeþ þe of þǣre eorþan ūp flīceþ. Sēo wilnung hēr nis wundor ac glēd, gesewen and genemned, mægen þe on ecgum ǣwe and symbles clifaþ.
On ealdum denum þǣr sceadwode trēowu heapmǣlum standaþ, cenniaþ sǣd on coddum swā gewrinclodum swā fȳst. Þā rīperas, cræftige and unāþrōtene, plucciaþ þone wæstm and snīþaþ hine openne, þone gestrēon binnan ætīewende. Bēana bēoþ on windlum gehealden, on sunnan tō beormenne forlǣtene, siþþan on ofnum ābrædde þāra hridlu clangiaþ opene mid ǣlcum storme. Se lyft is þicce mid rēne and mid hlymme ȳcela, ac binnan þǣm cotum grindon þā weorcendan þā sǣd tō grōfre smyrels. Gearhundum ǣr supon rīcendan ealdra ceastra þone drenc þe þǣrof cōm, gestencne and gewyrtodne, of fatum mid nǣdran and geagwāre gefrætwodum. Þis ne wæs wuldor ac tōl, lācedrenc ellenes ǣr gefeohte oþþe lustes ǣr gesamnunge, mean tō onǣlenne wilnunge and willan. Racenteaga magon on hāte gītsunge bēon gesmiþode, ac hīe magon slīdan þā tīd þe heora gecynd ongieten biþ.
Sēo wyrt þe hire wæstm þissum cræfte giefþ ne þēahþ on cyle oþþe on drȳge, ac on þǣm unāblinnendan stēamendan flōde þæs emnihtes. Þā hlæstas þe tō feorrum sǣriman fōron bǣron mid him mā þonne smæcc. Hīe bǣron spell ǣwe and cēapes, rīcenda and wiþerwinnena. On candellēohtum cleofum rīca wæs se drenc gewend, geswētod, on hīw geþrungen þe man brecan and dǣlan mihte. Þā cēaphūs þe þā rēnigan stānstrǣta gerīmdon wēoxon welige on his cēape. Hē ēode on hām þāra mihtigra and þāra gemetfæstra gelīce. Gȳt nū, tō ofbrecenne dǣl and hine meltan lǣtan is tō onbyrgenne gemengednesse wildes wudu and fȳres, gemynd þæt þæt þe costaþ mæg ēac fēdan, gif hit mid openum ēagum genumen biþ.
Cēapmann on ealdre cēapstōwe wæg sticca and bēana swā carefullīce swā hē his āgene willan wæg. Hē mihte hord gehȳdan on bæce his feormærnes, nā tō hordienne ac tō onbyrgenne, þā wilnunge gefēran lǣtende nā hæftend. Þonne se wind on lætne hærfest stenc eorþan and wyrtum þurh þæt ēagþyrl bringþ, gaderaþ hīred on heora cycene, bloc ofer þǣm ofne meltende, hine on þicne drenc slegende tō dȳpanne hlāf, oþþe hine on lȳtle hwītclāmfatu āgotende. Sēo ǣw is eald and ānfeald: tō sceawienne, tō onbyrgenne, tō þafienne þæt þæt man wilnaþ ful gesewen bēon.
Gif sēo þæcele nīþerlīce byrnþ, onǣle hīe. Gif þā racenteaga slīdaþ, oncnāw gif þīne āgene handa hīe healdaþ. Ofbrec lȳtelne dǣl þæs þe þū tōniht gītsast, and onbyrig hine slāwe. Sete stēmende cuppan wiþ þīn ēagþyrl under rēnstorme, and gehȳr hū se þunor ofer þone hrōf færþ.
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