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Hatton MS.] GREGORY'S PASTORAL. 9 onsendan ; & ón ælcre bið án æstel, se bið on fiftegum mancessa. Ond ic bebiode ón Godes naman ðæt nan món ðone æstel from ðære bec ne dó, ne ða bóc from ðæm mynstre : uncuð hu longe ðær swæ gelærede biscepas sien, swæ swæ nu Gode ðonc wel hwær siendon; forðy ic wolde ðæt[te] hie ealneg æt ðære stowe wæren, buton se biscep hie mid him habban wille oððe hio hwær to læne sie, oððe hwa oðre biwrite.

Þis ærendgewrit Agustinus ofer sealtne sæ suðan brohte iegbuendum, swa hit ær foreadihtode dryhtnes cempa Rome papa. Ryhtspell monig Gregorius gleawmod gindwód ðurh sefan snyttro, searoðonca hord. Forðæm he monncynnes mæst gestriende rodra wearde, Romwara betest, monna modwelegost mærðum gefrægost. Siððan min on Englisc Ælfred kyning awende worda gehwelc, & me his writerum sende suð & norð; heht him swelcra má brengan bi ðære bisene, ðæt he his biscepum sendan meahte, forðæm hi his sume ðorfton, ða ðe Lædenspræce læste cuðon :-

I. Đætte unlærede ne dyrren underfón lariowdóm. II. Ne eft ða gelæredan, ðe sua nyllað libban sua hie on bocum leornedon, ðæt hie sceoldon [ne] underfón ða áre ðæs lariowdómes. III. Be ðære byrðenne ðæs reccenddómes, & hu he scyle eall earfoðu forsion, & hu forht he sceal bion for ælcre órsorgnesse.

20 For he gained over most of mankind to the Guardian of heaven, best of Romans, wisest of men, most gloriously famous. Afterwards king Alfred translated every word of me into English, and sent me to his scribes south and north ; ordered more such to be brought to him after the example, that he might send them to his bishops, for some of them needed it, who knew but little Latin. I. That unlearned men are not to presume to undertake teaching. II. Nor again let the learned who are unwilling to live as they have learnt in books undertake the dignity of teaching. III. Concerning the burden of government, and how he must despise all hardships, and low afraid he must be of every luxury.