3 And heora tungan torncwidum neode serwað, swa oft nædran doð, and him aspidas, ætrene wyrmas, under welerum is gewunad fæste.
and mine sawle sona alysde of leon hwelpum reðe gemanan; wæs ic slæpende sare gedrefed. Synd me manna bearn mihtigum toðum wæpenstrælas, þa me wundedon; wæron hyra tungan getale teonan gehwylcre and to yfele gehwam ungemet scearpe.
Yrre heom becume anlic nædran, ða aspide ylde nemnað; seo hi deafe deð, dytteð hyre earan,
Efne hi habbað on muðe milde spræce, is him on welerum wrað sweord and scearp. Þonne gehyreð hwylc, hwæt hyra hyge seceð?