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13+ GREGORY'S PASTORAL. [Cotton Mss. eorðlicum weorcum, ðonne bið hit swelce ðæt fægre hiew ðæs goldes sie onhworfen, & hit sie ablacod & forsewen for monna eagum. And þa gimmas ðara halignessa licgeað toworpene after stræta endum. Đonne licgeað ða gimmas toworpne æfter strætum, ðonne ða men þe hie selfe to ðære ciricean wlite geæmettigian sceoldon on ðæm diglum ðenengum ðæs temples, ðonne hie ute wilniað ðara rumra [rumena] wega ðisse worlde. Soðlice ða gimmas ðara halignessa to ðæm wæron gemacode [getacnode] ðæt hie sceoldon scinan on ðæs hihstan sacerdes hrægle betweox ðæm halgestan halignessum. Ac ðonne ða sacerdas to æfestnesse & to weorðunga ures Aliesendes ne bædað ða þe him underðiedde beoð mid hiera lifes geearnungum, ðonne ne beoð hie na ðære halgestan halignesse gimmas on ðæm gerenum ðæs biscepes gierelan, ac licgeað toworpne æfter strætum, ðonne ða hadas ðære halgan endebyrdnesse bioð forgifene ðæm widgillan wegum hiora agenra lusta, & bioð getigde to eorðlicum tiolengum. Eac is to witonne ðæt he ne cwæð na ðæt ða gimmas wæren forsceаdene æfter ðæm strætum, ac æt ðæra stræta endum ; forðæm ðeah hie worldcundlice drohtigen, hie wilniað ðæt hie ðyncen ða betstan, & ðeah hie gan on ðone ruman weg hiera agnes willan & lustfulnesse, he wilniað ðæt hie mon hæbbe for ða betstan & ða halgestan. And swaðeah hwilum sint to geðafienne for niedðearfe ðas eorðlican tiolunga, & næfre ðeah to swiðe ne lufige, ðylæs hie gehefegien ðæs monnes mod þe hie to swiðe lufað, ðæt he for ðære byrðenne gehefgad & oferswiðed ne sie besenced of ðæm yfemestum to ðæm nieðemestan. Ond swæðeah monige underfoð heorde, & ðeah wilniað ðæt hie bion freo & æmettige synderlice him selfum to gastlicum

in the eyes of men. And the gems of the sanctuaries lie scattered at the end of the streets. The gems of the sanctuaries lie scattered along the streets when the men, who ought to keep themselves unoccupied for the adornment of the church in the secret ministrations of the temple, desire the wide roads of this world outside. For the gems of the sanctuaries were made in order to shine on the robe of the highest priest among the holiest holinesses. But when the priests do not incite their subjects to virtue and reverence of our Redeemer with the merits of their life, their gems of the holiest holinesses are not in the orna- ments of the bishop's robe, but lie scattered up and down the streets, when the offices of holy ordination are left to the wide roads of their