Se Pāpa sit betwux swērum, foresittende þā þegnunga mid gecrossodum cǣgum glitniendum on his handa. His þrymmsetl, gebytlod of ealdum þēawe, hæfþ wihte gēarhunda boren. Ac þonne sēo carte is gehworfen, se stæþiga edlǣc ongīnneþ mid æmtignesse edlǣcan. Þā word sind gecweden, þā candela ontende, ac se andgiet is āsliden æfter þǣre wahrifte. Þæt hrægl hangþ slāc, þæt gebǣre is riht ac æmtig. Hit nis dwildōm, ac wērignes, āscung þæs ealdan mynetes.
Þǣr ǣr wæs þunor gesamnunge, nū is stilnes campstedes æt dægrēd. Se dūst ārīseþ on hringum ymbe bōtas þāra þwanga swā oft sind gecnytte þæt þā þrǣdas sind hnesce and cūþe. Cempan standaþ on rǣwe, hrægl geþrycced, ac hira ēagan wōriaþ, gemunende nā þone dræf ac þā eorþe under hira fōtum. Þās hrægl, gesīwod of clāþe gecorenum nā tō blisse ac tō gemengednesse on wīdum feldum and drīgum hyllum, belimpaþ ōþrum spelle. Hīe wǣron āfundene tō færeld, tō þām miclan ūtlendiscan weorce, tō oferfare wēstena and tō ābīde monsūnregnes under hrædwyrhtum geteldum. Þæt word mǣnþ dūst, and his ǣreste hām wæs on handum sēamwyrhtena and metewearda, nā prēosta.
Ǣr, on sceade þæs Bryttiscan Rīces, trindelas þisses clāþes wǣron on cratum gesende þe mid wundorlīcum namum wǣron gemearcode, gelagode tō ūtstedum þǣr se wind brǣþ feorra sǣda bær and swæcc tē þe on gebēotum cuppan ceald geworden wæs. Se clāþ wæs boren mid mannum þe leornodon elles tō styrienne, and stilnesse þæs landes tō rǣdenne swā miccle swā þæs heretogan bebodu. Hē wearþ blēo gewununge, ganges betwux regolum, nā ful hām, nā ful fremde, andswaru nānes āscunge būtan līfes. Hālignes þegnunge dwan under nēode weorces: hræde sticas tō betenne slit, wæter gefecced on gebēotum tine, gebed hwispred nā on mæsserūme ac under heofone tō wīd tō belūcenne.
Elles se monsūn cymþ, and sēo eorþe ūp āweorpeþ mist, þicce and nēah. Wæstmas būgaþ, nēah gearwe tō rīpe. Feldas milletes and gærses, hira stelan tōhe and drīge, styriaþ on þām ilcan gemete swā orþung slǣpendes hūses. On swilcum dagum se lyft is ful ābīdes. Wīf wæsc on līnum hangiaþ þe betwux trēowum sind āþenede, hrægl þe dūst strǣta and screpe strēawmealta cūþon. Cild sǣdcoddas gaderiaþ, hira folma besmītede mid eorþan. Sēo sunne scīnþ þurh gewefenum blīndum, and dropmaþ þone flor þǣr se ealda fōtmealt ligeþ, þrǣdbær ac trum, healdende gemynd langra æfterna and wihte spella þe oft sind gereht.
Wer his bōtas æt þām þersceolde glēteþ, þæs besmes byrstas āhebende lāstas giestranes weges. Hwǣr hwega rīs wylmeþ on gebēotum potte, and se brǣþ ārīseþ, ānfeald ac stæþig. On þām cēape sæccas cornes sind āstaplede, hira hȳd gehāt fōdan, cyn stillre geniht þe þegnung ne biddeþ. Hēr andgiet is eft geworht of gewunan, of fealdunge clāþes, of betunge sēama, of settunge bēodes and bolles. Þis sind þā þegnunga þe wuniaþ þonne þā ealdan þegnunga hira stefn forlēosaþ.
Tōdæg þū meaht dūst of ealdum gescȳ āwipian, slit on lēofre syrcan betan, oþþe þīne handa on grēote wuduspones restan þā hwīle þe þū ānfealdne mete hrērst. Þū meaht ēagþyrl tō þām wearmum stæþigum lyfte ontȳnan and þone wæsc on þǣre līne bifian sceawian.
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