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188 GREGORY'S PASTORAL. [Cotton MSS. medtrymnesse. Swæðeah is ðæm to cyðanne ðæt hie hie warenigen ægðer ge wið ða ungemetlican blisse ge wit ða ungemetlican unrotnesse, forðæm hiera ægðer astyreð sumne unðeaw, ðeah hie ungewealdes cumen of ðæs lichoman mettrymnesse. Ðæm oferbliðan oft folgað firenlust, & ðæm unrotan irre. Forðæm is micel niedðearf ðæt mon hiene wið ðæt irre an & wið ða ungemetlican sælða warnige, ac eac wið ðæt þe forcuðre bið, þe ðæræfter cymð, ðæt is firenlust & unryhtlicu irsung, ðæt is ðæt mon irsige on oðerne for his gode. Đonne is micel ðearf, ðonne him mon ðissa twegea hwæðer ondræt swiður ðonne oðer, & wið ðæt wind, ðæt he swæ swiðe wið ðæt winne swa he on ðæt oðer ne befealle, þe he him ær læs ondred.

XXVIII. Đætte on oðre wisan sint to manianne ða ealdormen, on odre ða hieremen.

On oðre wisan sint ðonne to manianne ða underðioddan, on oðre ða ofergesettan. Đa underðioddan mon sceal swæ læran ðæt hie ealles ne sien genæt ne geiermed, & ða ofergesettan mon sceall swæ manian ðæt se hiera folgoð hiene ne oðhebbe. And ða underðioddan ðæt hie wiers ne don ðonne him mon bebeode, & ða ofergesettan ðæt hie him to unaberendlice ne beoden. And ða underðioddan ðæt hie him eaðmodlice underlicggen, & ða ofergesettan ðæt hie gemetlice him ofer sien, ðæt hie magon eac be ðisse bisene ongietan þe him is to gecweden: Bearn, beo ge underðiodde eowrum ieldrum magum on Dryhtne. Đæm ofergesettan is to gecweden : Ne gremige ge eowru

bodily weakness. Yet they are to be directed to guard both against immoderate joy and immoderate sadness, because they both stir up some vice, although they arise involuntarily from bodily weakness. The overcheerful are often liable to wantonness, and the sad to anger. Therefore it is very necessary to guard both against anger and ex- cessive prosperity, and also against what is worse, and follows after, which is wantonness and unrighteous anger, that is, being angry with another because of his prosperity. And it is very necessary, when a man dreads either of these two more than the other, and strives against it, that he strive not so earnestly against it as to fall into the other, which he formerly dreaded less.