Hy geopenodon ealneh heora muð for leahtre, to þæm þæt hi me bysmredon, and cwædon: “Hit is la ful good þæt æfre ure eagan moston geseon þæt we wilnodon.”
For þæm he hæfde his heofonrice her on eorðan, þa him nanes willan næs forwyrnd her, ne nanes lustes on þysse weorulde; for ðam he nyste him nænne þanc ne Gode ne mannum, þæs ðe him man sealde syððan he hit hæfde, butan þa ane hwile þe hit him man sealde,