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Hatton MS.) GREGORY'S PASTORAL. 205 bioð upahæfene, gescende. & ðeah oft gebyreð ðæt ða bioð mid liðlicre race gehwyrfde, & eft ða medwisan oft mid bisenum gehwyrfde. Đæm lytegan ðonne is betere ðæt hie mid ryhtre race weorden oferreahte & mid ðære race gebundene & ofersuiðde. Đæm medwisan bið genog god ðæt he gecnawe oðerra monna weorc untælwierðe. Be ðæm se æðela lareow sanctus Paulus, se sceolde læra[un] ægðer ge wise ge unwise, ða he ongeat ða Ebreas sume wisran, sume medwisran, ða manode he, & cuæð to ðæm gelæredum ðara aldena boca mid liðelicum wordum : Đætte nu foraldod is, ðæt is forneah losad. & eft he cuæð to ðæm medwisan ða he ongeat ðæt hie mon mid sumum bisnum manian sceoldle : Đa halgan menn geðafedon on ðisser worlde monig bismer & monige swyngean & monige bendas & carcernu, hie wæron stænde, & snidene mid snide, hie wæron costade, & mid sweordum hi wæron ofslægene. Ond eft cuæð Paulus : Gemunað eowerra foregengena ðara ðe eow bodedon Godes word, & behealdað hiera lif & hira forðsiið, & gongad on ðone geleafan. Forðon he ðus cuæð ðæt he ða lotwrenceas oferwunne & oferreahte ; & eac ða medwiisan to maran angienne mid ðære liðelican bisnunga gespone.

XXXI. Đætte on oðre wisan sint to manianne ða scamfæstan, & on oðre ða scamleasan.

On oðre wisan sint to læranne ða scamleasan, on oðre ða scamfæstan. Đæm scamleasan ne wyrð no gestiered butan micelre tælinge & miclum ðrean ; ða scamfæstan beoð oft mid gemetlicre lare gebetrode.

they were sawn with the saw, were tempted, were slain with swords. And again, Paul said : “Remember those who went before you, who preached to you God's word, behold their life and departure, and walk in faith.” He spoke thus to overcome and confute their guiles; and also to encourage the simple to greater enterprises, with the gentle example. XXXI. That the modest are to be admonished in one way, the shameless in another. The shameless are to be admonished in one way, the modest in another. The shameless cannot be managed without great blaming and threatening, the modest are often improved with moderate in-