Ælfric's Colloquy (10th Century) From British Library, MS Cotton. Tiberius A III and Oxford, MS. Col. S. Johan. Extracted from Wright, Thomas. A Volume of Vocabularies. (Modern English translation is mine)
| þu sceo-wyrhta hwæt wyrcst þu us nytwyrþnessæ | |
| M. | Tu, sutor, quid operaris nobis utilitatis? |
| You, Shoemaker, what | |
| Ys witodlice cræft min behefe þearle eow and neodþearf | |
| S. | Est quidem are mea utilis valde vobis et necessaria. |
| hu | |
| M. | Quomodo? |
| ic bicge hyda and fell and gearkie big mid cræfte minon and wyrce of | |
| S. | Ego emo cutes et pelles, et preparo eas arte mea, et facio ex |
| him gesey mistlices cynnes swyftleras and sceos leþer-hosa and butericas | |
| eis calciamenta diversi generis, subtalares, et ficones, coligas et utres, | |
| bridel-þwancgas and geræda flaxan vel pinnan and higdifatu spur-leþera and hælftra pusan | |
| frenos et falera, flascones et calidilia, caclaria et chamos, peras | |
| and fætelsas and nan sower nele oferwintran buton minon cræft | |
| et marsupia, et nemo vestrum vult hiemare sine mea arte. | |
| and purses and |