Þā racenteaga on þæs Dēofles cartan sind nū lēase. Þǣr hīe ǣr bundon, hangiaþ hīe nū, gleng æt þǣre þrotan, bēagas handwyrstum þe ǣr wundode wǣron. Swīge is on þǣm stānhēale, se lyft stincende ac ungedrefed, swā þā hīw þe on sceadwum crupon feorr under marmarflōrum on hinder ēodon. On ealdum spellum ne biþ þæt gnagende þing ā āflogen, ac hwīlum ān forgieten, tō dimmum glenge geworden. Se mōd wyrcþ sweorbēag of his ealdum feterum and sitt, unāstyred, on þǣre stilnesse.
Stōwa sind on worulde þǣr ealde nȳtenu weorþaþ lāc: þā tūscas mid carum handum gegræfene, se smēþa brād cōl, hefig, mid gearhundum ǣwe and cēapes tō scīman gewered. On Westrīcum Affrican sægdon þā tūscas spell, mid līnum and rædelse gegræfene, ǣlc wendung and ȳþ mearc cyninga and þāra stillena, langfarenra elpenda. Palantas ætīewdon hīe swā tācn sige, nā þæs nȳtenes, ac āgenres deorran hungores, on wæfersīenum and on ǣwum geglenged. Þā cēapwegas wundon þurh wæte wudas and slāwe ēa, forþ wiþ þunorhēafdum þe on lætnum æfternōne gaderiaþ, þǣr se lyft þiccaþ and sēo woruld stiln biþ ǣr rēne. Spēd rād on hrycgum berendra, glisnende mid behāte feorra spēda, and þēah heold ǣlc mearc gemynd þæs lifiendan þinges þe forloren wæs.
Hwǣr hwǣr glīseþ þǣre cirican hāligfæt on leoman, fæt tōþes hālges, spon martyres ribbes. Se wēofod is mid cǣgum and locum gerīmed, and on þǣre stilnesse wrīþeþ stōr ūp, se stenc clifiende tō gesīwodum clāþum. Se hired sitt on healfum swīge, þæs ǣrran byrþena andwearde ac unsmēade, swā þā hālgan lāf hīe ealles þæs þe hīe beraþ ālīesan mihton. Þā cǣga hangiaþ of hōcum, ungebrocene, þā duru on lyfte forlǣtene. Nāht hēr nis fæste belocen.
Þæt weder ūte is līþe, wuniende, lenctenes smēþe mist, of þǣre ēa in wealcende, feldas and ceastre on cōlre, bewriþendre wǣge wrēonde. Sēo woruld is ādīmmud, þā heardan ecga gesmēþode. Menn faraþ on swīgean, swīge heora fōta wiþ stān edlǣcende, swā þæt hīe þā slǣpendan gemynd binnan þǣm lāfum and þǣm gegræfenum cystum ne gedrefen. On cycenum rǣcaþ handa tō þǣre pilestre þe on disce resteþ, smēþe, þicce, mid gearum brūces gemearcod, wyrtruman and scelle tō morgenes mete grindende. Cuppan and bolla of þǣm ilcan andfenge geworhte gerīmaþ þā bēamas, lāf þurh cneorissa ālǣfde, cūþe swā se hefe æt ende racenteage þe nān nā ful āweg dōn wolde.
Ac sēo racenteag is lēas. Þæt hefige þing æt hire ende mihte bēon āset, þēah hit sīe ānne tīman. Mann mæg mid þǣre pilestre on folme ābīdan and oncnāwan hū ēaþe hēo mihte bēon ādūn gesett. Hē mæg þurh þone mist gān and hine smēþe on his hȳd sittan lǣtan, hine gemyndigende þæt gemǣru wendaþ, and þæt þā ealdan hāligfatu ne þurfon stede begān. Hē mæg his fingras along þǣm græfum on gemyndþinge lǣdan and gemunan þæt spell bēoþ gesceapene mid þǣre handa þe hīe healdeþ, nā ān mid þǣm sceadwe þe æfter fealþ. Hē mæg stillne tīd niman tō polienne þā þing on þǣm bēame, nā for þǣm þe hīe hālige sind, ac for þǣm þe care mæg līþe bēon, nā bindende.
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