1 u ic onsundran þe secgan wille
2 treocyn ic tudre aweox;
3 in mec æld sceal ellor londes
4 settan sealte streamas.
5 Ful oft ic on bates gesohte
6 þær mec mondryhten min
7 ofer heah hofu; eom nu her cumen
8 on ceolþele, ond nu cunnan scealt
9 hu þu ymb modlufan mines frean
10 on hyge hycge. Ic gehatan dear
11 þæt þu þær tirfæste treowe findest.
12 Hwæt, þec þonne biddan het se þisne beam agrof
13 þæt þu sinchroden sylf gemunde
14 on gewitlocan wordbeotunga,
15 þe git on ærdagum oft gespræcon,
16 þenden git moston on meoduburgum
17 eard weardigan, an lond bugan,
18 freondscype fremman.
19 Hine fæhþo adraf of sigeþeode;
20 heht nu sylfa þe lustum læran,
21 þæt þu lagu drefde,
22 siþþan þu gehyrde on hliþes oran
23 galan geomorne geac on bearwe.
24 Ne læt þu þec siþþan siþes getwæfan,
25 lade gelettan lifgendne monn.
26 Ongin mere secan, mæwes eþel,
27 onsite sænacan, þæt þu suð heonan
28 ofer merelade monnan findest,
29 þær se þeoden is þin on wenum.
30 Ne mæg him worulde willa gelimpan
31 mara on gemyndum, þæs þe he me sægde,
32 þonne inc geunne alwaldend god
33 ætsomne siþþan motan
34 secgum ond gesiþum.
35 Gecyre ic ætsomne ᛋ ᚱ geador
36 ᛠ ᚹ ond ᛞ aþe benemnan,
37 þæt he þa wære ond þa winetreowe
38 be him lifgendum læstan wolde,
39 þe git on ærdagum oft gespræconn.