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106 GREGORY'S PASTORAL. (Cotton MSS. no to ondrædonne ðæm hierde, forðæmþe [forðæm] Dryhten hit eall swið esmealice geðencð, & him forgifð he swæ micle ieðelicor bið gefriðod from his agnum costungum swæ he mildheortlecor bið geswenced mid oðerra monna costungum.

XVII. Hu se reccere sceal bion ðæm weldondum monnum fore eaðmodnesse gefera & wið ðara yflena unðeawas stræc for ryhtwislecum andan.

Se ealdormon sceal lætan hiene selfne gelicne his hieremonnum : he sceal bion hiera gefera for eaðmodnesse ðara ðeah þe wel don; he sceal bion wið ðara agyltendra unðeawas upahæfen for ðæm andan his ryhtwysnesse, & ðætte he on nanum ðingum hiene betran ne doo ðæm godum ; ond ðeah ðonne he ongite a scylda ðara ðweortimena, ðonne geðence he ðone ealdordom his onwaldes ; & eft ongean ða godan & ða wellibbendan forsio he his ealdordom swæ swiðe ðæt he on eallum ðingum ða þe him underdidde sien læte him gelice, ond ne wene he nanes ðinges hiene selfne betran ; & eft wið þa widerweardan ne ondræde he ðæt he begonge his ryhtwisnesse, swæ swæ ic geman ðæt ic iu sæde on ðære bec þe Morales [Moralis] Iob hatte. Ic cwæð ðæt æghwelc mon wære oðrum (om.) gelic acenned, ac sio unge licnes hiera earnunga hie tihð sume behindan sume, & hiera scylda hie ðær gehabbað. Hwæt ðonne ða ungelicnesse ðe of hiera unðeawum forðcymeð, se godcunda dom geðencð ðætte ealle menn gelice bion ne magon, ac wile ðæt simle se oðer beo aræred from ðæm odrum. Forðæm ealle ða þe for [fore] oðrum beon sculon ne sculon hie na

the dirt of the washers, he fears losing his unruffled purity. But the pastor has no cause to fear it, for God considers it very carefully, and the more he is afflicted with the temptations of others, the easier deliverance he grants him from his own. XVII. How the ruler must be the companion of well-doers from humility, and severe against the vices of the wicked from righteous indignation. The ruler must put himself on a level with his subjects: he must be the companion of well-doers from humility; he must be severe with the faults of sinners from righteous zeal, and must not exalt himself above the good; and yet, when he perceives the sins of the perverse,