Sēo Abbodesse sit æfter hire wǣfelse, unrǣden bōc on hire cnēowum, and se strēam æt hire fōtum is stille. On þissum tīman hire rīce nis flōwende dēagolnessa, ac stilnes swā þicce þæt hēo þā worulde fram healdeþ. Sēo gewritrolle wunaþ geinsiglod, swā þā word selfe forhtien tō bēonne gesprecen. Þǣr hire rihta self þone swefnere on mōnanlēoht and dēagolnesse lāþode, nū se rȳm is gemearcod mid stilnesse þe ne āgiefþ.
On ealdum Engliscum tūne, nēah ǣfenne, se lātesta sunnan glēd hrepaþ hēapas foxglōfan and þā langan speru wildra blōstmena. Is ān dæl þǣr þā blōstman gaderiaþ swā pæll, unforþhebbende, sārlige, nā lāþende nē forbēodende. Cild ǣr hīe nemdon wiccan glōfa and dearron ǣlc ōþer þā blōstman tō hrīnanne, ac tōdæg nān hand ūt ne rǣcþ. Þæs tūnes brerd is līne forhæfdnesse, gescēad þæt sume þing betst of feornesse sind gesmead.
Niþer windigum ceasterlānum īsengeatu wyrgaþ þone pæþ tō getimbrum mid hefigum pællwāgriftum getogenum ofer ælcum ēagþyrle. Æfter him se lyft is þicce mid wihte ealdra spella and dūstes, bēc on bōchernum belocene for intingum þe nān ful ne geman. Sēamwyrhtestre, lȳtlum būtan þām geatum, þurh hire windel þumaþ tō cliewene gespunnenum tō sorge, gebrocenum tō gebrerdienne handwyrstu wintres hrægla oþþe tō sīwenne brerd forgietmēnā on handclāþe deope geþryccedum on cedercyste. Is frōfor on þǣre þegnunge, ac ēac cūþnes þæt sume hrægl sind geworht tō bedīglenne mā þonne tō ætȳwenne.
On stormigum sǣrīman Norþhymbralandes ǣfen gaderaþ þā hwīle þe fisceras tō heofone lōciaþ tō tācnum. Mist in wealwaþ, forswelgende swēg þæs flōdes, þā hwīle þe se hǣþ on þām mōre mid regne glitnaþ. Ǣr wyrtruman sumra wildra wyrta wǣron gesodene tō lācnunge, se wæstm gegoten on stānfatu gehealdan fram lēohte and fricigendum ēagum. Ealde wīf secgaþ hū se drenc binnan lȳtlum stencde eorþan and sealtes, bōt gemēned tō dēagolnessum līchaman, untrumnessum gesprecenum on hwispredum tōnum, næfre gedǣledum būtan getrēowum hringe.
On Uictoriscan sprǣcrūm hēah glæshlædel stent on besceadowodum heorþstāne. Binnan: swētseaw swearter berigena, þicce and glisniende, geworht of berigum þe fingras þāra besmītedon þe hīe æt ende Agustes pluccodon. Se drenc is gegoten for giestum swā gebǣre ēgþer cumlīc and forhæfd, his swæcc welig ac næfre tō swēte. Unontȳnede bollas gaderiaþ on heallum, giefene swā gifa æt byrgengum, gedȳfde æfter hēapum ǣrenda gebundenra mid bende, tācnu þinga þe ān on forgange sind gesprecen, gif hīe æt eallum sind.
Man mæg þā foxglōfan be æmtigum pæþe begīman, witende þæt nā ælc cuma sceolde bēon inn gelāþod. Ōþer mæg handclāþ gesīwodne on sorge on wintres hrægl þryccan, berende gemynd stillīce þurh cealde morgen. Man mæg standan æt brerde þæs mōres, hlystende dēagolnessum þæs windes būtan hīe tō sprecanne biddan. Oþþe drenc for gieste gēotan, and lǣtan stilnesse þone rȳm fyllan þǣr word mehton hrēow ætȳwan.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Hēahbasu.
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