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202 GREGORY'S PASTORAL. (Cotton MSS. be hiora andefene & gemetgiað ðone ðrean ; gedenceað ðæt ægðer ge hiera hlaford ge eower is on hefonum.

XXX. Ðætte on oðre wisan sint to manianne ða dolan, on oðre ða wisan.

On oðre wisan sint to manianne ða þe ðisse worlde lotwrenceas cunnon, & ða lufiað, on oðre ða medwisan. Đa lytgan sint to manianne ðæt hie oferhycgen ðæt hie ðær wieton, ða samwisan sint to manianne ðæt hie wilnien to wiotonne ðæt ðæt hie nyton. Đæm lytegan is ærest to beleanne hiera selflice, ðæt hie ne wenen ðæt hie sin wise. On ðæm medwisan is to trymmianne swæ hwæt swæ hie ongietan mægen ðæs godcundan wisdomes, forðon, ðonne hie nane wuht ne ofermodgiað, ðonne bið ða heortan swiðe gearwe wisdomes to onfonne. Ac ymb ða lytegan we sculon swiðe swiðe swincan ðæt hie ðone wisdom forlæten þe him selfum ðyncð tætte wisdom sið, & fon to ðæm Godes wisdome be him dysig ðyncð. Ne ðearf mon no ðone medwisan læran ðæt hie ða lotwrenceas forlæte, forðonþe he hie næfð. Forðæm him is micle ieðre to gestiganne on ðone ryhtan wisdom ðonne ðæm lytegan sie to onbugonne, forðæmþe he bið ær upahafen on selflice for his lotwrencium. Be ðissum ilcan cwæð sanctus Paulus : Swelc eower swelce him selfum ðynce ðæt he wisust sie on ðæm lotwrencium, weorðe ðæs ærest dysig, ðæt he mæge ðonon weorðan wis. Be ðæm medwisan is cweden : Ne sculon ge bion to wise æfter ðæs lichoman luste. And eft cwæð Paulus : Đa þe worldmonnum ðynceað dysige, ða gecist Dryhten, forðæmþe [forðæm ðæt] he ða lytegan, ðe mid ðisum worldwrencium bioð

moderating your threats ; consider that both their master and yours is in heaven.” XXX. That the foolish are to be admonished in one way, in another the wise. Those who know and love the wiles of this world are to be ad- monished in one way, in another the simple. The cunning are to be admonished to despise what they know, the dull-witted to desire to know what they are ignorant of. The conceit of the cunning is first to be blamed, that they may not deem themselves wise. In the simple is to be strengthened whatever they can understand of divine wisdom, because, while they are not at all presumptuous, their hearts are