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206 GREGORY'S PASTORAL. [Cotton MSS. Đa scamleasan nyton ðæt hie untela doð, buton hit mon lim sæcge, & ðeah hit mon him secgge, hie his ne geliefað, buton hie monige menn forðy tælen. Se scamfæsta hæfð genoh on ðæm to his betrunge ðæt his lareow hiene swiðe lythwon gemyndgige his unðeawa. Đone scamleasan mon mæg ðy bet gebetan þe hiene mon swiður ðreað & scent, ac be ðæm scamfæstan hit is nytre ðæt ðæt him mon on tælan wille, ðæt hit mon healfunga sprece, swelce hit mon hwon gehrine. Be ðæm Dryhten swiðe openlice tælde ða scamleasan Iudeas, & cwæð: Eower nebb sint swæ scamlease swæ ðara wifa ðe bioð forelegissa. And eft he olehte ðæm scamfæstan, ða he cwæð: Đære scame & ðære scande þe ðu on iuguðe worhtes ic gedo ðæt ðu forgitst & ðæs bismeres ðines wuduwanhades ðu ne gemanst, forðæm ðæt is ðin Waldend þe ðe geworhte. And eft ða scamleasan Galatas swiðe openlice sanctus Paulus tælde, ða he cwæð: Eala ge ungewitfullan Galatæ, hwa gehefgade eow? And eft he cwæð: Swæ dysige ge sint ðætte ðæt ðæt ge gastlice underfengon, ge willað geendian flæsclice. Đa scylda ðara seamleasena he tælde, swelce he efnswiðe him bere, & cwæð: Ic eom swiðe gefionde on Dryhtne ðætte ge æfre woldon ænige wuht eow selfum witan ær ic hit eow wite. Hit is god ðæt ge hit nu wietun. Næron ge noht æmettige, ðeah ge wel ne dyden. Forðæm he spræc ðas word þe he wolde ðara scamleasena scylda tælende geopenian, & ðara scamfæstena giemelieste he wolde mid liðelicum wordum gedieglan.

struction. The shameless do not know that they do ill, without being told, and when told, they do not believe it, unless many men blame them for it. It is enough to reform the modest man, if his teacher remind him very gently of his faults. The more the shameless man is rebuked and humiliated, the better the chance of improving him, but with the modest man it is better to speak out what one has to blame in him only partially, as if touching it lightly. Therefore the Lord very openly blamed the shameless Jews, saying : “ Your faces are as shameless as those of harlots." And again, he soothed the modest, saying: “I will make thee forget the shame and disgrace of thy youth, and thou shalt not remember the reproach of thy widow-