Sēo miclu heall is stille under hyrcdum hrōfe. Cǣga glitiniaþ of hringe þe is ūp ahafen, hrægl træglaþ niþer ofer marmarstæpum, and sēo stilnes is tōbrocen ān mid hnescum slīde slefa and mid fordruncenum hwōstan twēgra stillra folgera. Sēo þegnung is eald, yldra þonne ǣnig libbende gemynd, and hēo is gehūsed on getimbrunge steore: swēras corfene, stāntæfl on þām flore, edlǣc regol on ælcum stāne. On þissum temple se dōm is geerfed, nā āfinden. Se Pāpa foresiteþ mid hefignesse gēarhunda, and lǣt þone flōd ealdes þēawes þurh dæghwāmlīce þegnung.
Betwux þām hālgum þingum is clāþ, smalu and spellbǣre. Hit is smalu nett, his mynet mid earfoþe gelōcod mid handum þe of þām ǣrrum leornodon, and siþþan hira cræft āgēafon, cnottan be cnottan. Þes clāþ, ǣr gebrocen tō wrīgenne andwlitan wīfa oþþe tō bewefenne þæt wēofod, hwispriaþ æfenna on stillum rūmum: wudu spinel cnucode ongean þone hringfinger, slaw hring þrǣdes unwindende on beorhtre hrince. On miclum hūsum hē frætwode brerdas līnes, tācn smēþnesse. On tūnes mæsserūmum hē wæs gebrocen tō bindenne ealde mæssebēc, and hnescte hyrnas bōca mid gebigedum leafum. Þes smala nettclāþ, ǣr gecēapod ofer gemǣru, ǣr gegildod fram cyningum, flēweþ þurh stǣr swā þynne swā orþung and swā þurhwuniende swā gebed.
Þis þrǣdweorc berþ binnan him fōtstapa cneorissa: brȳda þe hine earglīce hrepodon ǣr hīe in þā healle stōpon, cild þe þā lōcas rīmde tō leornienne geþyld, wuduwe þe hine in hire scrīn feald. Hit is sprǣc būtan wordum, tācn on bēode æt symble and æt wæcce gelīce. Hine handlian is dǣlnimung on þegnunge cearu, and andettan þæt fægernes mæg geþyldig bēon and geþyld mæg fæger bēon. On handum þæs Pāpan hē weorþeþ hrægl ambehtes, se brerd þe hālig of woruldlīcum tōscēadeþ, lārēow of sēcendum.
On sumum landum se cræft fōd æt hām on fūhtum, mistigum tūnum þǣr sǣs ciele lang ǣfen be fȳre nēadode. Þǣr se weder þrāng on stāncotu, and þæt ān þe man dōn mihte wæs þone þrǣd windan and spell hlystan. Se nettclāþ wearþ mā þonne frætwung. Hē wæs gewrit līfes, handa gehealdene þurh slāwe tīda, and gemǣnnes gesīwod mid smalum geweorce. Siþþan, on smēcendum ceastra cleofum, hē wæs tācn wilnunges. Hlǣfdīgan and eorlas setton smale clāþas under hira tēcuppan, and ætȳwdon hira smæcc and hira gehȳrsumnesse tō þēawe. Cēapsetl mid nearwum ēagþyrlum ætȳwdon byndelas þisses clāþes, and cēapstōwa edlǣhton cēapmanna cīg.
Tōdæg þū meaht sum þisses geērfe findan on þām niþemestan scrīne bēodes, oþþe gefeald on hopcyste, oþþe gīet frætwigende brerd mǣgþes wēofodes. Tō weorþienne þis, þū meaht tīd niman tō betenne sum þing mid handa, oþþe þancgewrit wrītan on leafum þe mid smalum mynetum sind gebrerdod, oþþe sittan on stillum rūme and gemunan þā spell þe on þīnum āgnum hūslīnum sind bewunden. Gif þū tīd hæfst, āgief cræft. Feald mēlsceat mid care, lǣr cild bogan tō cnyttanne, oþþe sægle gemynd þe þone ǣrran tō þām andweardan þrǣdeþ.
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