Genesis A, B
- 700
wifa wlitegost, þæt heo on his willan spræc,
- 701
wæs him on helpe handweorc godes
- 702
to forlæranne.
- 703
Heo spræc ða to Adame idesa sceonost
- 704
ful þiclice, oð þam þegne ongan
- 705
his hige hweorfan, þæt he þam gehate getruwode
- 706
þe him þæt wif wordum sægde.
- 707
Heo dyde hit þeah þurh holdne hyge, nyste þæt þær hearma swa fela,
- 708
fyrenearfeða, fylgean sceolde
- 709
monna cynne, þæs heo on mod genam
- 710
þæt heo þæs laðan bodan larum hyrde,
- 711
ac wende þæt heo hyldo heofoncyninges
- 712
worhte mid þam wordum þe heo þam were swelce
- 713
tacen oðiewde and treowe gehet,
- 714
oðþæt Adame innan breostum
- 715
his hyge hwyrfde and his heorte ongann
- 716
wendan to hire willan. He æt þam wife onfeng
- 717
helle and hinnsið, þeah hit nære haten swa,
- 718
ac hit ofetes noman agan sceolde;
- 719
hit wæs þeah deaðes swefn and deofles gespon,
- 720
hell and hinnsið and hæleða forlor,
- 721
menniscra morð, þæt hie to mete dædon,
- 722
ofet unfæle. Swa hit him on innan com,
- 723
hran æt heortan, hloh þa and plegode
- 724
boda bitre gehugod, sægde begra þanc
- 725
hearran sinum: "Nu hæbbe ic þine hyldo me
- 726
witode geworhte, and þinne willan gelæst
- 727
to ful monegum dæge. Men synt forlædde,
- 728
Adam and Eue. Him is unhyldo
- 729
waldendes witod, nu hie wordcwyde his,
- 730
lare forleton. Forþon hie leng ne magon
- 731
healdan heofonrice, ac hie to helle sculon
- 732
on þone sweartan sið. Swa þu his sorge ne þearft
- 733
beran on þinum breostum, þær þu gebunden ligst,
- 734
murnan on mode, þæt her men bun
- 735
þone hean heofon, þeah wit hearmas nu,
- 736
þreaweorc þoliað, and þystre land,
- 737
and þurh þin micle mod monig forleton
- 738
on heofonrice heahgetimbro,
- 739
godlice geardas. Unc wearð god yrre
- 740
forþon wit him noldon on heofonrice
- 741
hnigan mid heafdum halgum drihtne
- 742
þurh geongordom; ac unc gegenge ne wæs
- 743
þæt wit him on þegnscipe þeowian wolden.
- 744
Forþon unc waldend wearð wrað on mode,
- 745
on hyge hearde, and us on helle bedraf,
- 746
on þæt fyr fylde folca mæste,
- 747
and mid handum his eft on heofonrice
- 748
rihte rodorstolas and þæt rice forgeaf
- 749
monna cynne. Mæg þin mod wesan
- 750
bliðe on breostum, forþon her synt bu tu gedon:
- 751
ge þæt hæleða bearn heofonrice sculon
- 752
leode forlætan and on þæt lig to þe
- 753
hate hweorfan, eac is hearm gode,
- 754
modsorg gemacod. Swa hwæt swa wit her morðres þoliað,
- 755
hit is nu Adame eall forgolden
- 756
mid hearran hete and mid hæleða forlore,
- 757
monnum mid morðes cwealme. Forþon is min mod gehæled,
- 758
hyge ymb heortan gerume, ealle synt uncre hearmas gewrecene
- 759
laðes þæt wit lange þoledon. Nu wille ic eft þam lige near,
- 760
Satan ic þær secan wille; he is on þære sweartan helle
- 761
hæft mid hringa gesponne." Hwearf him eft niðer
- 762
boda bitresta; sceolde he þa bradan ligas
- 763
secan helle gehliðo, þær his hearra læg
- 764
simon gesæled. Sorgedon ba twa,
- 765
Adam and Eue, and him oft betuh
- 766
gnornword gengdon; godes him ondredon,
- 767
heora herran hete, heofoncyninges nið
- 768
swiðe onsæton; selfe forstodon
- 769
his word onwended. þæt wif gnornode,
- 770
hof hreowigmod, (hæfde hyldo godes,
- 771
lare forlæten), þa heo þæt leoht geseah
- 772
ellor scriðan þæt hire þurh untreowa
- 773
tacen iewde se him þone teonan geræd,
- 774
þæt hie helle nið habban sceoldon,
- 775
hynða unrim; forþam him higesorga
- 776
burnon on breostum. Hwilum to gebede feollon
- 777
sinhiwan somed, and sigedrihten
- 778
godne gretton and god nemdon,
- 779
heofones waldend, and hine bædon
- 780
þæt hie his hearmsceare habban mosten,
- 781
georne fulgangan, þa hie godes hæfdon
- 782
bodscipe abrocen. Bare hie gesawon
- 783
heora lichaman; næfdon on þam lande þa giet
- 784
sælða gesetena, ne hie sorge wiht
- 785
weorces wiston, ac hie wel meahton
- 786
libban on þam lande, gif hie wolden lare godes
- 787
forweard fremman. þa hie fela spræcon
- 788
sorhworda somed, sinhiwan twa.
- 789
Adam gemælde and to Euan spræc:
- 790
"Hwæt, þu Eue, hæfst yfele gemearcod
- 791
uncer sylfra sið. Gesyhst þu nu þa sweartan helle
- 792
grædige and gifre. Nu þu hie grimman meaht
- 793
heonane gehyran. Nis heofonrice
- 794
gelic þam lige, ac þis is landa betst,
- 795
þæt wit þurh uncres hearran þanc habban moston,
- 796
þær þu þam ne hierde þe unc þisne hearm geræd,
- 797
þæt wit waldendes word forbræcon,
- 798
heofoncyninges. Nu wit hreowige magon
- 799
sorgian for þis siðe. Forþon he unc self bebead
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