The Life of a Shepherd
Written circa A.D. 1000

Master: What have you to say shepherd? Have you heavy work too?
Shepherd: I have indeed. In the grey dawn I drive my sheep to the pasture and I stand watch over them, in heat and cold, with my dogs, lest the wolves devour them. And I bring them back to the fold and milk them twice a day. And I move their fold; and I make cheese and butter, and I am faithful to my lord.

Wright, Thomas, Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies, Vol. I, p.88, Trubner and Co., London, 1884.