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19+ GREGORY'S PASTORAL. [Cotton MSS. unwisdome & for his swongornesse ne mæge ongietan ða unðeawas ðara ðe him underðiodde bioð. Ac ðonne hnæppiað ure bræwas, ðonne we hwathwugu stiorwierðes ongietað on ða þe us underðiedde bioð, & we gebærað for ure recceliste swelce we hit nyten ; ðonne hnappige we. Ac ðonne we slapað fæste, ðonne we nohwæðer ne hit wietan nyllað ne hit betan nyllað, ne furðum ne recceað hwæðer we hit ó wieten [óngitan], ðeah we hit gecnawan cunnen. Ne slæpð se no fæste, ac hnappað, se þe gecnawan mæg hwæt tælwierde bið, & swæðeah for his modes swongornesse oððe recceliste forwandað ðæt he bete & ðreage his hieremen be ðæs gyltes andefene. Ærest mon hnappað; gif he ðonne ðære hnappunge ne geswicð [suicð], ðonne hnappað he oð he wierð on fæstum slæpe. Swæ eac oft gebyreð ðæm þe fore oðre men bion sceal, ðonne he hwelc yfel ongiet, & ðæt nyle onweg aceorfan, ðæt ðonne æt nihstan hit wierð to gewunan ðæt he hit ne mæg gebetan, ne furðum ongietan ðæt hit ænig yfel sie. Ac ða sint to manianne þe for ofre bion sculon, ðæt hie geornfullice [geornlice] ða ymb sion þe hie ofer beon sculon, ðæt hie mid ðære geornfulnesse geearnigen ðæt hie sien ðæm hefоnlican neatum gelice: þa wæron geeawde, swæ hit awriten is ðæt hie wæron ymb eall utan mid eagum besett, & eac innane eagna full. Swæ hit is cynn ðætte þa sien þe for[e] oðre beon sculon, ðæt hie ægðer hæbben eagan innan ge utan, ðæt hie mægen ðæm incundan Deman on hiera agnum ingeðonce lician, & eac utane mid godum bisnum hiera agnes lifes hiera hieremonnum bisenigen, & ðætte tælwierðes on him sie, ðæt hie ðæt tælen, & hie forðæm ðreatigen [ðreagen]. Đa underðioddan sint to manianne ðæt hie ðara unðeawas

doze." A man lets his eye sleep, when from folly and sloth he cannot perceive the vices of his subjects. Our eyelids doze, when we perceive something worthy of correction in our subjects, and from indifference we feign not to know it; then we doze. We are fast asleep, when we will neither acknowledge nor attempt to improve it, nor indeed care to notice it, though we are able to know it. He is not fast asleep, but dozes, who is able to know what is worthy of reproof, and yet from sloth of mind or indifference hesitates reforming and reproving his sub- jects in proportion to their guilt. At first he dozes; if he does not stop dozing, he dozes until he falls fast asleep. Thus also it often happens to him who has to rule others, that, when he perceives any