Se bēod is gesett: stæf, calic, sweord, and mynet. Þās sind þæs Drȳs tōl, ac sēo woruld hweorfeþ, and mid hire slīdeþ hefignes willan. Þæt þe ǣr wæs gierd wierþ ætīewend tō rǣdelsplegum, se calic fæt handplegan, sēo ecg ǣrendopenere, se mynet tācn on scellplege. Behāt hweorfunge hangþ āhangen bufan weorcbēode, spinnende, wancigende, swā hit ēac bīde tō leornienne hwæt hit geworden is. Willan, ǣr rihte, hweorfaþ nū þurh healle scēawera.
On ealdum landum be þǣre Middelsǣ dēorodon cēapmenn scellfisc mid dīegolnesse. Þæs nīetnes līc, gecnyysed and læft tō wæcenne, āgeaf seldcūþe blece, gesōhte þurh cyningas, gehordode þurh sacerdas, and gebeden þurh cēapmenn þe woldon ætīewan heora hād. Hrægl of Sidone oþþe of Tȳre mearcodon þone weriend swā sumne tōdǣledne, and þēah wæs se cræft fūl, stincende, and ēaþe tō beswice. Lease gelīcnessa wǣron genihtsume. Nā ǣlc hrægl cōm of heardum gewinne wæstmgaderienda be stānworoþe. Nā ǣlc tācn ealdordōmes bær þā hefignesse þe stǣr wēnde. Se Drȳ mihte ǣr getrīewan þæt ǣlc þing heolde ān galdor ānum, ac nū is þæt hrægl pleghrægl, þæt bēacn grīma. Se ealda bysen mægenes wierþ lot, and se lot wierþ se bysen.
On hærfestes mōrum gaderiaþ lāge mistas, and sum wyrt stent hēahra þonne þæt græs, hire blōstmbēamas lēohtfætgelīce and hefige. Þonne man hīe pluccaþ, magon þā blōstman blecan fingras dagum, warnung þām þe hīe cūþon for heora āttre. Folc brūhte ǣr hire wyrtruman tō briwenne lǣcedōm and hire blēda tō mearcienne dēaþbedd þāra mihtigra. Nū is þæs blōstmes andgiet lǣsse gewis, gelǣned tō blōstmbundum, gedrēod intō gemyndþingum, his ealde ege ādimmod þurh cūþnesse. Þā tōl āþoliaþ, ac heora brūcas bēon wrixlede þurh gēarhund gewunan and þurh woriunge raca.
On feorrum cycenum restaþ croccas wæstmes on hēam scelum. Wīnheapas, gepluccode, geþrycte, and læfte tō fermentienne, weorþaþ drenc frēolsum and dīegolnessum. On winternihtum hryrdon yldran þone gebrǣd intō briw, tyhtende cild tō birgenne þā swētnesse and warniende þæt tō micel mihte þone mēte forspillan. Hēr eft is þæs Drȳs bēod: sum ēaþe þing biþ gehwirfed, ac nā ā swā gemynt. Cildes handa, clibbege mid wōse, mētaþ wilde hringas ofer bēodbrerd. List nis ā wīsdōm, and ofermǣte forspilleþ þone frēols.
Geond cēapwegas fōr clāþ gedēagod on seldcūþum blēom of hyþe tō byrig, of hīrede tō temple. Tō werienne swilcne clāþ wæs tō bodienne cyn galdres: welan, bend, oþþe hyldo. Ac swā sēo dēag wearþ gemǣne, swā wearþ þæt andgiet. Þæt hrægl þe þone dēmere worhte þēnaþ nū þone plegere. Se wāg þe ǣr behȳdde hāligdōm frætwæþ nū sprǣchūses ēagþȳrel. Þā þing āþoliaþ, ac heora mægen biþ gecēapod, gelǣned, and hwīlum forloren.
Tōdæg meaht þū wæcan fēawa wīnscella on cuppan wearmes wæteres and birgan gemynd langra færelda. Drīf blōstmbēam, carfullīce, betwēonan trametum bēce and læt hine mearcian capitulum willan oþþe warnunge. Bewind scēarf, ǣr gelǣned of plegcyste, ymb þīne eaxla ǣr þū ūt stæppe on ǣfenes gaderiendne mist. Gif þū cymst on mynet æt ecge strǣte, geþenc tō giefenne hine þām nīehstan plegere þe þū forþgǣst.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Basu.
Lucky Color: Purple — #800080Hweorfung andgietes mæg ætīewan ealdes tōles nīwne lot, and læt þæt þe þū healdst weorþan sum ungebīden.