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178 GREGORY'S PASTORAL. (Cotton MSS. wisan da þe hie tælað, and hie swæðeah ne forlætað; & on oðre wisan ða þe mid sumre unryhtwilnunga bioð færinga hrædlice oferswiðede, on oðre ða þe on ðære synne ealnu weg licgeað, mid geðeahte to gebundene; & on oðre wisan ða þe ða lytlan scylda oftrædlice wyrceað, on oðre ða þe ða lytlan forgað, & ðeah hwilum ða maran wyrceað; & on oðre wisan ða þe nan god nyllað onginnan, on oðre ða þe hit onginnan willað, & næfre ne geendiað ; & on oðre wisan ða þe dearnunga yfel doð, & god eawunga, on oðre wisan ða þe hiera god helað þe hie doð, & ne recceað ðeah men wenen ðæt hie yfel don, & eac mid sumum ðingum gedoð ðæt men wenað tæt hie yfel dón. Hu nyt reahton we nu ond rimdon ða eægea, buton we eac feawum wordum ætiewen hwæt hie healden, & swæ we sweotulost mægen æfter gereccean?

XXIV. Đætte on oðre wisan sint to manianne weras, on oðre wif.

On oðre wisan sint to manianne weras, on oðre wif. Đa weras mon sceal hefiglicor & stiðlicor læran, & ða wif liohtlicor ; forðæm ðæt ða weras higien to maran byrðene, & ða wif mid oleccunga weorðen on gebrohte.

XXV. Đætte on oðre wisan sint to manianne ða iungan, on oðre ða ealdan.

On oðre wisan sint to læronne ða giungan, on oðre ða ealdan ; forðæm oftor mid reðre manunge bioð ða giongan nytwyrðe gedone,

who do unlawful things, and also praise them, in another those who blame them and yet do not relinquish them ; in one way those who are soon overcome by any sudden unrighteous desire, and in another those who are engaged in the sin the whole time, bound to it by design; in one way those who often commit small sins, in another those who forego the small sins and yet sometimes commit the greater; in one way those who will not begin any good, in another those who desire to begin and never accomplish it; in one way those who do evil secretly and good openly, in another those who hide the good they do, and do not care if men think they do evil, and also in some things make men think they do evil. Of what use were it to describe and enumerate the keys without explaining in a few words what they are to lock up, and treating of them hereafter as clearly as we can ?