Geong wōriend stent æt ecge þæs clifes, se ǣresta stæpe his færeldes ungewiss ac unbyrþen. Hē hielt rōsan mid līþum handum, hire blēda hnesce and beorhte. Be him hlēapeþ lȳtel hund and hwearfaþ, and hine forþ onbryrdeþ on þæt uncūþe. Se weg beforan nis mid stāne gebræded, ac mid þām hnescan lāfum rīpes tīde þe ǣr wæs, clūstrum fībrigra þrǣda þe hwīlum rīpende ēaran beweredon, nū tōstencede swā lāþunga geond þone grund.
Þās þrǣdas, smale and blāce, habbaþ stōw on cycenum and on æcerhūsum geond þā woruld. Æfter þām rīpe sind hīe of þām ēarum ātogene and on scearpum clāþum ālegde tō drȳgenne on ēagþȳrelsyllum, þær hīe þæt wācoste morgenlēoht fōþ and wācne swētne swæcc āgiefaþ. Sume sind behȳdede on ealdum receptbōcum oþþe on glæscroccum, gehealden tō tīdum þonne smyltend drenc þearf bēon mæg. Ōþre sind gewefene on smale glengas, hringas tō wīpum, bend tō wyrtbyrþenum, oþþe lȳtle gebregdene tācn tō āhōnne be þǣre duru. On sumum tūnum gaderiaþ cild þā strengas and wyrcaþ hīe tō ānfealdum dolum oþþe bregdaþ hīe on bēagum, tācn slāces æfternes and anginnes heora āgenra smalra færelda.
Far furþor and þās þrǣdas weorþaþ cūþe gesihþe on cȳpebēodum and on forporticum. Æcerceorlas settaþ hīe mid þām ēarum, tācn ferscnesse and care. On feorrum stōwum brūcþ man hīe on folclǣcungum, on wætere gestēpede, and gelȳfþ þæt hīe wærmþe sunnweligra felda on wintercycena beran. Þær sind spell forgengena þe handful on pūsum heoldon on langum færeldum, gemynd hāmes and ymbhweorfa sāwunge and rīpunge. Hwīlum fōdraþ menn nest bæcennra henna mid him, and gelȳfaþ þæt hīe līþnesse þām ǣgrum and gōd gelimp þām hīrede bringan.
On sumum spellum sind þās þrǣdas dēore for heora mægene worulda tō bindenne, þā libbendan tō þām lande, þone fērend tō þām þe bēon mæg. On symbeldagum sind hīe hwīlum be handfule on þone wind tōstencede, āweg borene tō weorþenne eft dǣl þǣre eorþan. Fērende, ealles þā þe ǣrest ūt settaþ, habbaþ bēon gecūþe fēawa þissa þrǣda on heora pūsum tō berenne, trūwigende þæt se ilca gāst þe þone corncorn innan his hule bewereþ ēac heora stæpas weardige. Se Wegfarend is ā æt þām þerscolde, trūwiende þām tīman, gefēred mid þissum stillum gifum feldes and rīpes.
Tōdæg mæg sum smælne byrþen þissa þrǣda on līþne drenc stēpan, and þā swētnesse smæccan and opene wegas geþencan. Ōþer mæg hīe bregdan and hīe ymb crocc bindan swā tācn nīwra willena. Mann mæg fēawa under pyle dōn, and hyhtan sibbsumra swefna and friþfæstra færelda. Oþþe ānfealdlīce gān neah wyrtūne oþþe felde and gīeman þæs gemetes þe þā þrǣdas on þǣre yste drīfaþ, ǣlc ān līþe clipung þæt færeld beforan tō befōnne.
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