Se Wegfarend, cnappsæcc ofer eaxle, wancaþ on brerde clifes. His ēagan bīgaþ nā tō þām grunde, ac tō þām openan heofone, þær hīw þæs weges gȳt nā ætīewed is. Hē stæpþ on midde lyfte, nā of trēowe, ac of þȳ þe hē ǣlc warnung oferhlēapþ, of þȳ þe hē wiþsæcþ tō yldenne. Se lȳtla hund hlēapeþ æt his hēle. Hit is styrung tō hræd, behāt gedōn ǣr ǣnigum behāte of þǣre eorþan niþer.
Ofer gēarhundum bǣron þā þe gelimp ēhton þā gedrȳgedan līchaman ymlena, dīegle gehealdene on heora pūsum. Þās smalan rīpas, hwīlum āscrapene of þyrnigum perecactum on feorrum landum, wurdon tō dūste on handum hīwera. Cȳpmenn frēcnodon eall tō ferienne hīe of þām American landum þurh geþrangum hyþum, hyhtende friþes færeldes and rihtwīsra cēapa. On cræfta hūsum ealdra Venetia and Seville blēowon þā cornu on weallendum hwerum, and acendon hīw þe cyrtlas cwēna mearcodon, wēofodclāþas heafodcyrica, fana ūp āhafene on burgwagum. Þæt hīw ne behēt tō wunienne, ne warnode gif hit ācōlode, ac þā þe hlēopon trūwodon heora fingrum and heora fȳre.
Wæs tīd þā se nama tō fugle gebyrede, his fiþerum dēorum, āpluccodum tō hættum and tō cynehræglum. On palentum soldānas pōlodon hefige wāgas on fāgum flōrum, þicce mid swæcce grānæpples and gewyrtodes wīnes. On Engliscum wyrtūnum bǣron lætblōwende blōstmas þone naman, heora blēda costung wiþ grǣgnesse hærfestes. Þonne wyrtweardas þā blēda betwēonan lēafum þrycton oþþe heora swæcc on wætere ūt tēon sōhton, wæs se ende ā ungewiss: swæcc þe wunode, oþþe fordwan ǣr se crocc belocen wǣre.
Ēac se weder hæfþ þis tācn boren. Dūststormas swēgende ofer feldum Middelasie and Ēastane Europan besmiton þone heofon, bewrigende wæstmas and weorpende wundorlīc lēoht on ēa and feldas. Nīetenu wurdon unrōte. Tūnware wundrodon hwæþer se rīp āfeolle. Þonne swilc storm slōh, wæs hit hlēap gelēafan tō sāwenne, wiþsæcnes tō hlystenne warnungum gecyndes.
On ceasterstrǣtum on rīce ealdra cyninga bǣron scyldas wænlāttēowa and þēaterwāgas þone ilcan naman, tācn weorþscipes, ac ēac lāþiende smita of lāme and rēne. Ǣlc scrūd frēcnode forlore, swā carfull swā se berend wǣre. On þǣre cycene blēd wæstm of feorrum wyrtūnum, tōsniþen, sǣd wealciende, geond fingras and snīþbred. Se sēaw arn wild, swæcc ǣgþer swēte and scearp, flēonde lust ǣr hē sūrode. Bæceras fealdon þā sǣd on cācas, pleogende on swæcce, nǣfre gewisse hwæþer hǣte þæs ofnes geheolde oþþe wanode þæt þe hīe dēore heoldon.
Gif þū wilt styrian mid ungewisum gelimpe þæs Wegfarendes, bind seolcenne sweorclāþ ymb þīn handbōg ǣr þū ūt stæppe. Ontȳn grānæppel and læt þā sǣd tōstencan on þīn morgenmēl. Smæc ǣlc, and nāt hwylc þē wundrian dēþ. Melt insigleweax on ærendgewrit and send hit ūt, underfōnde swā hwylc andswaru swā eft cuman mæg. Stæp ūt on færlicum rēne, and læt þīne fēt þone niehstan stān findan, ēac gif þū his hīw gȳt ne gesiehst.
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