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126 GREGORY'S PASTORAL. [Cotton MSS. stafe he bið awreðed. Gid ðær ðonne sie gierd mid to ðreageanne, sie ðær eac stæf mid to wreðianne: sie ðær eac lufu, næs ðeah to hnesce; sie ðær eac regnes, næs ðeah to stir; sie ðær eac onda, næs ðeah to ungemetlice grim; sie ðær eac arfæstnes, næs ðeah wandigendre ðonne hit gedafenlic sie; ðætte ðonne sio ryhtwisnes & sio mildheortnes hie gegadrige on ðæm onwalde ðæs recceres, & ðæt mod his hieremonna oleccende egesige & ðreatigende olecce.

XVIII. Hu se lareow ne sceal ða innerran giemenne gewanian for ðære uterran abisgunge, ne eft ða uterran ne forlæte he for ðære innerran.

Ne forlætte se reccere ða innerran giemenne ðas godcundan ðeowdomes for ðære abisgunge ðara uterra weorca, ne eac ne gewanige he na ðone ymbhogan ðære innerran scire for ðære abisgunge ðære uterran; ðylæs he sie gehæfð mid ðæm uterran, oððe eft mid ðæm innerran anum abisgad, ðæt he ne mæge ðurhteon his nihstum ðæt he hin utan dón sceolde. Monige ðeah nyllað na geðencean ðæt hie beoð oðrum broðrum ofergesett, & him fore beon sculon on godcundum ðingum; ac mid ealre heortan geornfulnesse begongað ða worldcundan giemenne, & fægniað ðæs ðæt hie ða habbað to begonganne ; & ðonne, ðonne hie hie nabbað, dæges & nihtes hie fundiað to begietonne, & beoð swiðe gedrefede on hiera mode forðæmþe him ðonne wana bið ðæs þe hie habban woldon. Ac ðonne him eft gelimpð æt hie æmettige beoð ðære scire, ðonne beoð hie swiður on hiera mode geswenced for ðæm æmettan; forðæm ðæt wære his willa

be also a staff to support with : let there be also love, yet not too effeminate; let there be also vigour, but not too severe ; let there be also zeal, but not too excessively fierce ; let there be also kindness, yet not more scrupulous than is fitting ; that when righteousness and mercy are associated in the ruler's authority, he may, while soothing the hearts of his subjects, inspire them with reverence, and, whilst correcting, soothe them. XVIII. How the teacher is not to diminish his care of inner things for outer occupations, nor neglect outer things for the inner. Let not the ruler forsake the inner care of the divine ministration