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182 GREGORY'S PASTORAL. [Cotton MSS. ðæs ecean gefean, ac gefioð ealle mode ðisses ondweardan lifes genyhte. Ac ðæs is ðearf ðæt mon ðone frefre þe on ðæm ofne asoden bið his iermða, and se is to ðreatianne & to bregeanne, se þe bið upahafen mid ðy gefean & mid ðy gilpe ðisse worlde; ðætte ða sorgfullan ongieten ðæt him becumað ða welan þe him gehatene sint, ðeah hie hie ðonne giet ne gesion ; & eac ða welegan ongieten ðæt[te] ða welan þe hie onlociað & habbað, ðæt hie þa habban ne magon. Ac ðæm lareowe is micel ðearf ðæt he ongiete hwa earm sie, hwa eadig, & hwone he læran scile swæ earmne, & hwone swæ eadigne. Forðæm oft se welega & se wædla habbað swæ gehwierfed hiera ðeawum ðæt se welega bið eaðmod & sorgfull, & se wædla bið upahafen & selflice. Forðæm sceal se lareow swiðe hrædlice wendan his tungan ongean ðæt þe he ongiet ðæt ðæs monnes ingeðonc bið, forðæm ðæt se earma upahafena sie mid his wordum geðreatod & gescended, ðonne he ongiet ðæt hiene ne magon his iermða geðreatian & geeаðmedan. Ac swæ micle liðelicor he sceal oleccean ðæm welegan eaðmodan swæ he ongiet ðæt he eaðmodra bið, ðonne hiene ne magon ða welan forwlencean, þe ælcne ofermodne oðhebbað. & oft eac mon sceal ðone welegan ofermodan to him loccian mid liðelicre olecciunga, forðæm ðæt he hiene to ryhte geweme; forðæm oft hearde wunda bioð mid liðum beðungum gehnescode & gehælede, and eac ða wodðraga ðæs ungewitfullan monnes se læce gestilð & gehælð mid ðæm ðæt he him olecð æfter his agnum willan. Ne sculon we eac forgitan hu hit wæs be Saule ðæm kyninge: ðonne him se wieðerwearda gast on becom, ðonne gefeng Dauid his hearpan, & gestilde his wodðraga mid ðam gligge.

worldly riches; ye care not for the eternal joys, but ye delight with all your heart in the enjoyments of this present life." It is necessary to console him who is melted in the furnace of his miseries, and he is to be rebuked and terrified who is puffed up with the joys and glories of this world ; that the sorrowful may understand that the riches which are promised to them will come to them, though they do not see them yet, and also that the rich may understand that they cannot retain the riches they look at and possess. It is very necessary for the teacher to know who is poor, who rich, and whom he is to admonish as a poor, whom as a rich man. Because the rich and the poor man often so change their natures that the rich man is humble and sad, and the poor man is puffed up and conceited. Therefore the teacher must