8 ne him awiht þon ma heora tungan nu teonan on sittað. Ealle synd gedrefede þe hi on sioð;
Him ymb heafod hefegast gewinna, þæt hi mid welerum geworht habbað, him þæt ilce sceal on gesittan.
Þine ligetta leohtað and beorhtað, and þu hi toweorpest wide æfter; synd þine strele strange swylce, and ðu hi gedrefed hafast deope syþþan.
Ælc þæra þe me gesyhð, he me forsyhð and onscunað. Hi sprecað mid heora welerum and wecgað heora heafdu and cweðað:
Ofer ealle mine fynd ic eom geworden to edwite, and minum neahgeburum swiðost; ic eom worden him to ege and eallum þam þe me cunnon. Þa þe me gesawon, hi me flugon.
Ys hyra muðes scyld manworda feala, ða hi mid welerum wraðe aspræcan; wærun hi on oferhygde ealle gescende, þa hi on lige lange feredon;
for ðam þu gehwyrfdest mine fynd underbæc, and hi wæron geuntrumode and forwurdon beforan ðinre ansyne;