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Hatton MS.] GREGORY'S PASTORAL. 11 IIII. Ond hu oft sio bisgung ðæs rices & ðæs recedomes toslit [ðæt mod] ðæs recceres.

V. Bi ðæm ðe magon on ealdordome nytte bion on bisnum & ón cræftum, & ðonne for hiora agenre ieðnesse ðæt fleoð.

VI. Bi ðam ðe for eaðmodnesse fleoð ða byrðenne ðæs lariowdomes; ðonne hie bioð ryhtlice eaðmode ðonne hie ne winnað wið ðone godcundan dóm.

VII. Đætte oft ðæs lariowdomes ðegnung bið suiðe untælwierðlice gewilnad, & eac suiðe untælwyrðlice monige bioð togeniedde.

VIII. Bi ðæm ðe wilnað biscephad to underfónne, hu hie gegripað ðone cuide ðæs apostoles Paules hira gitsunge to fultume.

IX. Hu ðæt mód ðætte wilnað for oðre bion, lihð himselfum ðonne hit ðencð fela godra weorca to wyrcanne, & ðæt licet oðrum monnum, gif he woroldare hæbbe, & wile hit ðonne oferhebban siððan he hi hæfð.

X. Huelc se beon sceal ðe to reccenddome cuman sceal.

XI. Huelc se beon sceal se ðærto cuman ne sceal.

XII. Hu se se ðe gedafenlice & endebyrdlice to cymd, he he ðærón drohtian scyle.

XIII. Hu se lareow sceal beon clæne on his mode.

XIIII. Hu se lariow sceal beon on his weorcum fyrmesð.

XV. Hu se lariow sceal beon gesceadwis on his suigean & nyttwyrðe on his wordum.

IX. How the mind that wishes to be above others deceives itself while it thinks to do many good works, and simulates it before other men, if he have worldly honour, and then wishes to neglect it when he has it. X. What kind of man he is to be who is to rule. XI. What kind of man he is to be who is not to rule. XII. How he who properly and regularly attains thereto is to conduct himself in it. XIII. How the teacher is to be pure in heart. XIV. How the teacher is to be foremost in his works. XV. How the teacher is to be discreet in his silence and useful in his speech.