8 Hwæt, me ealne dæg edwitspræce on mine feondas fæste brohtan, and ða me heredan; hi me hraþe æfter full swyþe eft swerigean ongunnon.
Hwy ryð ælc folc, and hwi smeagað hi unnytt?
Mine fynd me cwædon yfel and wilnodon, and spræcon betwuh him and cwædon: “Hwonne ær he beo dead, oþþe hwænne his nama aspringe?”
For ðam me on sah unrihtes feala; wurdon me þa on yrre yfele and hefige.
Min heorte gebad hearmedwit feala and yrmðu mænig eac aræfnede; næfde eorla þæs ænig sorge; frefrend ic sohte, findan ic ne mihte.
Þa ic ealde dagas eft geþohte, hæfde me ece gear ealle on mode.
Cweþað him þæt edwit, ece Drihten, feondas þine, fæste ætwitað and þæt þinum criste becweþað swiðe.