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162 GREGORY'S PASTORAL. [Cotton MSS. getrymed ða word ðæs sacerdes ymbutan ðæt mod his hieremonna. & ne sceal lie no ðæt an bodigean his hieremonnum hu ða synna him wiðwinnað, ac he him sceal eac cyðan mid hwelcum cræftum he him wiðstondan mæg. Swiðe ryhtlice wæs se eaca ðærto gedon, ða mon to ðæm witgan cwæð: Wyrceað fæsten ymb ða burg. Wiotodlice fæsten wyreð se halga lareow ymb ða burg ðæs modes þe he gelærð ðone cræft hu hit mæg costungum wiðstondan, & him eac gesægð hu ðæm monnum þe him mægen & cræft wixst, hu him eac hwilum æfter ðæm mægenum eakiað costunga. Be ðæm wæs swiðe ryhte gecweden: Berað hiere to hlæd, & ymbsittað hie, & gað to mid rammum. Đonne bireð ælc lareow hlæd to ðæs monnes mode, ðonne he him gecyð hu sio byrðen wixst & hefegað. Eac he arærð ceastre wid Hierusalem, ðonne he ðæm ryhtlicum ingeðonce his hieremonna foresægð ða dieglan sætinga ðæs lytegan feondes, þe he him wenan mæg. And eac he birð rammas ymbutan ðæt mod his hieremonna, ðonne he him gecyð mid hu scearplicum costungum we sint æghwonan utan behringde, & se weall ures mægenes ðurhðyrelod mid ðæm scearpan rammum ðara costunga. And swæðeah nu, ðeah se lareow ðis eall smealice & openlice gecyðe, ne forstent hit him noht, ne him nohte ðon ma ne beoð forlætna his agna synna, buton he sie onæled mid ryhtwislicum andan wið his hieremonna scylda. Be ðiosum git is swiðe ryhtlice gecweden to ðam witgan : Genim ðe ane irene hierstepannan, & sete betweoxn ðe & Hierusalem for iserne weall. Đurh ða pannan is getacnod se wielm ðæs modes, & ðurh ðæt

Jerusalem, so are the words of the priest to be arrayed round the mind of his subjects. And he is not only to proclaim to his subjects how sins fight against them, but he is also to show them with what arts they can withstand them. It was besides very rightly said to the prophet : “ Construct a fortress round the city.” The holy teacher con- structs a fortress round the city of the mind, which he teaches the art of withstanding temptations, and tells him how, when a man's virtue and wisdom increase, his temptations also often increase in proportion to his excellence. About which was very rightly said: “Bring a mound against it, and beset it, and attack it with battering-rams.” Every teacher brings a mound against the man's mind, when he shows him how the burden grows and oppresses. He also raises a camp against