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1.9+ GREGORY'S PASTORAL. [Cotton MSS. strec on ðære lare, ne to slæc on ðære mildheortnesse. Swæ swæ we iu cwædon on ðeawa bocum be Iobe ðæt ægðer wære unnyt ge mildheortnes ge steor, gif hie anlepe wæren, buton hie butu ætsomne sien. Forðæm sccal beon on ðæm reccere ðæt he sie ryhtlice & mildheortlice rædende his hieremonnum & mildheortlice witnigende. For ðissum ilcan wæs ðætte sio Soðfæstnes self cwæð, ðæt is Crist, ða he lærde ðurh ða tiolunga ðæs Samaritaniscan ymb ðone gewundedan, þe mon lædde healfcwicne to ðæm giesthuse, & bæd ðæt mon sceolde ægðer ge win ge ele geotan on his wunde. Wiotodlice ðæt win slit ða wunde, & se ele hie gesmeð & gehælð. Đis is ðearf ðæt se se þe wunde lacnian wille geote win on, ðæt sio reðnes ðæs wines ða forrotedan wunde suge & clænsige, & eft ele, ðæt se hie liðe & hæle. Swæ eac ðæm lareowe is to mengenne a liðnesse wið ða reðnesse, & of ðæm gemange wyrce gemetgunge, ðæt he mid ungemetlicre grimsunge his hieremonna wunda to swiðe ne slite ne ne iece, ne eft for ungemetlicre mildheortnesse he hie ne læte unwriðena. Swiðe wel ymb ðæt tacnað sio earc on ðære ealdan æ. On ðære wæron þa stænenan bredu þe sio æw wæs on awriten mid tien bebodum, & eac sio gierd mid ðæm bredum, & eac se sweta mete þe hie heton monna, se him com of hefonum. Swæ eac, gif ðara haligra gewrita andgit bið on ðæm breostum ðæs godcundan recceres, ðonne sceal ðær bion gierd. Dæt is ðæt he geðreage his hieremenn. And eac sceal bion on ðæm breostum ðæs monnan swetnes. Đæt is ðæt he him sie liðe. Be ðissum ilcan cwæð David to Gode: Đin gierd & ðin stæf me afrefredan. Mid gierde mon bið beswungen, & mid

in instruction and too remiss in humanity. As we have said before in the book of morals, speaking of Job, that both humanity and severity were separately useless unless combined. Therefore the ruler ought to have a righteous and loving care of his subjects, and severity tempered with mercy, Therefore Truth itself, which is Christ, spoke when he taught by the Samaritan's care of the wounded man, who was carried half alive into the inn, and wine and oil were ordered to be poured into his wound. Wine irritates a wound, and oil softens and heals it. He who desires to heal a wound must pour in wine, that the harshness of the wine may penetrate and cleanse the corrupted wound, and afterwards oil, to soften and heal it. So also the teacher is to mingle gentleness and severity, that he may attain moderation