On þǣre carte hangþ ān wer āhafen, gefangen on þǣre anbīdunge betweox ānum ǣþme and þām ōþrum. Þonne sēo carte is ymbcerred, þonne is sēo stilnes unrōw. Sēo woruld ne lǣt tīd tō smēagunge, oþþe sēo smēagung self is unwilcume. Se līchama langaþ tō styrenesse, oþþe tō gewinne, oþþe ānlīce þæt se ealda þēaw eft onginne. For forlǣtennesse is stīþnes, unwillnes tō gehīeranne þæt þe sēo stilnes cwiþ, wiþsæcung tō sēonne þæt þe sēo anbīdung ætīewþ.
Þā hlīþ ūtan Siena sind gescypen fram gēarum gewinnes, heora eorþbrūne molde gewend for elegrāfum and wīngerdum. Sēo burg self wēox of þisse eorþan, tigel be tigele, hrōftigel be hrōftigele, strǣtstānas smēþe gewerede fram þūsendum fōtlāsta. Under sumeres sunnan rīst þæt dūst of þām feldum and setlaþ on ēagþyrelbordum and cēapcratum. Hit is þæt ilce dūst þe clīfeþ tō hræglum hālgena on weallbiliþum, tō hōfum horsa þā hwīle þe hīe yrnaþ on þām gedrēfdan stōwe, tō handum lāmwyrhtena æt heora hweolum. Se lyft smæcþ hwīlum lāmes, eorþan borenre inn on cycena and nīederna, gehealdenre on fatum and crōccum þe līniaþ ǣlcne heorþ.
Innan ealdum Tuscaniscum cycenum segþ ǣlc fæt spell anbīdunge and weorces. Lāmcrōccas sittaþ hefige on trēowbordum, heora lāmlican līchaman gescypene and gebærnede ǣr hīe wǣron gefyllede mid ele oþþe wīne. Ungeglæsode bæcdiscas, giefene fram ealdmēder tō ealdmēder, sind gemearcode mid fingermælum and seaxwundum, wundum brūces þe nǣfre ne gewītaþ. Hlāf rīst slāwe on þissum sunwearmum stānum, and bēana wyliaþ on sceortum, handworhtum croccum. Se weg is slāw. Þǣr sind hwīla þonne hit þyncþ ēaþre tō bycgenne nīwe, tō ofestianne, tō forlǣtenne þæt þe se þēaw biddeþ. Ac se smæcc þe cymþ of geþylde ne mæg bēon ofested. Se rīp cymþ on his āgenre tīde. Se dāg rīst, oþþe hē ne dēþ.
Begeondan þǣre cycene is sēo burg mǣre for blēo, molde grundon and āþwogen and gecēapod tō mēterum feorr begeondan Italie. On handum cræftigan wierþ þæt þe ongan swā lām tō æcere on bæcgrunde engles bodunge, tō fealdum on hālges hrægle, tō sceadwum on slǣpendum hunde æt fōtum cēapmannes. Þæt blēo bind hine self mid æges geolcan oþþe ele, and þonne biþ gelegd on wudu oþþe lim. Hit þearf lagena, tīde, and willan tō anbīdenne and tō lǣtenne ǣlcne dǣl drȳgan. Weallbiliþ healf gefylled forlǣten on wīge oþþe on wōle wierþ swīgende gewrit yldinge. Hwīlum anbīdeþ se weall cneorissa. Hwīlum ne ongint man þæt biliþ nǣfre eft, ac þæt blēo wunaþ, and hielt his stōwe on þǣre worulde.
Þonne þā regnas cumaþ, þonne hnescaþ þā feldas ūtan þǣre byrig. Fæn slīpeþ hēahscōs and fnæda þāra þe ne magon yldan heora ǣrende. Þǣr is tīd þonne þā wegas weorþaþ unfære, þonne forþgang stent hwæþer se wegfarend geþafaþ oþþe nā. Tō wiþstandenne is tō slīdenne, tō feallenne. Tō gehīeranne þæt weder is tō findanne scyld, tō underfōnne þā genīeddan anbīdunge, and tō witenne þæt, sōna genōg, sēo sunne eft cymþ and þæt land eft heardaþ for sulh and hweol.
Tōdæg mæg sum man cēosan tō cnēdenne hlāf fæstlīce, and lǣtan þone dāg rīsan būtan nīede. Ōþer mæg wrītan ǣrendgewrit on þiccum, rūhum brede, and underfōn þone slāwan drag þǣre feþere wiþ sīenigne brerd. Lāmwyrhta mæg wendan lām on þām hweole, handa fæste þēah sēo woruld gā hræde. Wēnunge, āne hwīle, sit sum man on stānsteape, and felþ þā wearmþe gehealdenne on eorþan and tigele, and gehīerþ þæt þe sēo anbīdung giefþ.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Eorþbrūn.
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