Hē hangþ hēafod niþer, earmas behindan, and se āhafena wer swingþ on swīge þæs windes. On rihtre sīdan þǣre carte is forlǣtennes, sāwol anbīdende æt ecge hweorfunge, orsorg tō lōcienne on þā worulde of nīwum ecge. Ac þonne sēo carte is ymbcerred, þonne is se rāp tō fæst oþþe tō slac, and se wer flīehþ oþþe wiþstent, and wiþsæcþ andgiet þǣre reste. Sēo ylding cymþ nā swā frōfor, ac swā wiþsæcung. Sum þing sceal bēon gedōn, ēac þonne nāht ne mæg bēon gedōn.
On þǣre worulde ūtan þǣre carte ætīewþ sēo ilce unrōwe wiþstandennes on þām dēopum, ealdum wudum þe þringaþ þā norþernan hlīþ, stōwum þǣr mēos bewrīhþ gefeallene stoccas and þā lēafhrōfas ādrīfaþ dægleōht. On wuduflore nīedaþ grundnǣdla and slipige wyrttruman wegfarende tō standenne, ac sume gāþ forþ, and scūfaþ forþ be feamum and gefeallenum pīnæpplum, unwillende tō gehīeranne þā swīge þæs underwudu. On ealdum spellum wǣron swilce wudas ǣgþer frīþstōw and weall, and hēoldon þā ofestigan on ymbhweorfum oþþæt hīe leornodon tō anbīdenne, oþþe drifon hīe ūt be wegum þe wēoxon fǣrlīce and fremde.
Ǣr, on hēahum scīrum Englalandes and Scotlandes, scearpodon wuduwyrhtan æxa under sponnenum sceadwum furhes and īwes, and wiston þæt ofest on þām weorce mǣnde tōbrytede handla and tōbrocene bladu. Se betsta stæpe cōm nā of nīede, ac of geþyldigre rīminge ǣlces hringes, and of līþre clǣnsunge ǣlces bōges. And þēah wǣron ā þā þe fundon tō ofestianne þæt fyll, and wunnon wiþ reste wintra storma oþþe wiþ hefignesse gaderiendes æfenglōman, and fundon hīe gefangene, tōl ādīglod, hēahscōs on fænne, and þā trēowu selfe þūhton hlīnian nēar, unāstyrede.
Cēap berþ ēac þās lār. Dēagwyrtigan on ealdum gēarum wylledon micel fatu netelan and doccan, and hrȳredon þæt hāte wæter mid gesealfodum hrēpsticcum. Sēo hǣtu fylde þone lyft mid eorþlicum rēce, and sēo wull þe man dȳfde in sceal restan, sceal wēcan, elles cymþ hēo unemne, hōlhtmǣle, ungedafen þām cēapstōwum Eoforwīces oþþe Brūge. Sume, nīedige for gestreōne oþþe ungeþyldgige wiþ þā anbīdunge, drōgon þā windlas tō hræde ūt. Se clāþ ne hēold. Þā cēapmenn andwlātodon. Þǣr sind tīda þonne se ānga weg forþ is þurh stilnesse, and wiþstandennes tōslīt ǣlcne þrǣd.
Weder nīedeþ hwīlum þis sōþ. On sumera wealcaþ þicce scūras of þām sǣrime and oferflōwaþ þā feldas, and wǣtaþ þā hegas and fyllaþ þone lyft mid stence īfiges and rinde. Wegfarende anbīdaþ under gewridenum ācum, mentelas nēah ātogene, and waciaþ þone regn bēadian on þām weaxigan lēafum. And þēah forseoþ sume þā warnunga, and gāþ forþ on þā slipigan wænes lāstas, and findaþ cratu on fænne, hweol dēope ātogene, nān ende on gesihþe būton þām singalan, gnorniendan dropungregne.
Innan þām hūse is cytel gesett tō netelenum drence, his rēc rīsende ofer rǣwum hāmwyrta þe sind þryccede be þām sylle. Se wunungrūm is gescēadod mid ealdre wullenre hwītele, gedeagodre mid lēafum and rinde, þicce and rūh wiþ þā fingras. On hyrne standaþ twēgen hēahscōs be þǣre duru, begrafene of gange þurh regnwǣtne feld, heora ilas gȳt healdende screadas mēoses and pīnnǣdle. Ēac hēr, on swīge rūma, ne dwīnþ se willa tō styrenne, ac þæt hūs self hielt stille flīt for reste. Slāw gearwung metes mid deorcum, lēafigum wyrtum, gemeten swāpa besman under þǣre bence, gīemenfull triming plantodes furhes. Man mæg andswarian þǣre wiþstandennesse mid lȳtlum dǣdum, mid sōcne þāra biterra lēafa þe þurhwunodon þone endemestan forst, mid eftplantunge telgan þe wēox tō wilde for his lāmfæt, oþþe mid anbīdunge be þām ēagþyrle tō wacienne þæt weder deorcian þæs wyrtūnes ecgas.
Þonne sēo woruld hǣt rest, þonne giefaþ þing þæs wudu and þæs hāmes heora lār. Þā ealdan wudas, þā fatu, se regn, þā geþyldigan cræftas, ealle lǣraþ þæt wiþsæcung þǣre anbīdunge lǣt āna tō gedrēfe and tō spilde. Ac tō restenne, tō wēcenne, tō wacienne, is āgen cynn forþganges.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Deorc grēne.
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