Dobbie, 1942 123-4; Dobbie, E.V.K., The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems, ASPR 6 (New York); Grattan and Singer, 1952 188-90; Grattan, J.H.G. and Singer, C., Anglo-Saxon Magic and Medicine, Publications of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum n.s. 3 (London).
Se wifman, se hire cild afedan ne mæg, gange to gewitenes
mannes birgenne and stæppe þonne þriwa ofer þa byrgenne
and cweþe þonne þriwa þas word:
þis me to bote
þære laþan lætbyrde,
5
þis me to bote
þære swæran
swærbyrde[?],
þis me to bote
þære laðan lambyrde.
And þonne þæt wif seo mid bearne and heo to hyre hlaforde
on reste ga, þonne cweþe heo:
Up ic gonge,
ofer þe stæppe
10
mid cwican cilde,
nalæs mid cwellendum,
mid fulborenum,
nalæs mid fægan.
And þonne seo modor gefele þæt þæt bearn si cwic, ga
þonne to cyrican, and þonne heo toforan þan weofode cume,
15
Criste, ic sæde,
þis gecyþed!
Se wifmon, se hyre bearn afedan ne mæge, genime heo
sylf hyre agenes cildes gebyrgenne dæl,
wry[?] æfter þonne on
blace wulle and bebicge to cepemannum and cweþe þonne:
Ic hit bebicge,
ge hit bebicgan,
20
þas sweartan wulle
and þysse sorge corn.
Se
wifman[?], se
ne[?] mæge bearn afedan, nime þonne anes
bleos cu meoluc on hyre handæ and gesupe þonne mid hyre
muþe and gange þonne to yrnendum wætere and spiwe þær
in þa meolc and hlade þonne mid þære ylcan hand þæs
25
wæteres muð fulne and forswelge. Cweþe þonne þas word:
Gehwer ferde ic me þone mæran
maga þihtan,
mid þysse mæran
mete þihtan;
þonne ic me wille habban
and ham gan.
þonne heo to þan broce ga, þonne ne beseo heo, no ne eft
30
þonne heo þanan ga, and þonne ga heo in oþer hus oþer heo
ut ofeode and þær gebyrge metes.