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208 Gregory's pastoral. [Cotton MSS. XXXII. Đætte on oðre wisan sint to manianne ða ofermodan & ða upahafenan on hiora mode, on oðre ða earmheortan & ða wacmodan.

On oðre wisan sint to manianne ða modgan & ða fortruwedan, on oðre wisan ða unmodgan & ða unðristan. Đa fortruwudan, ðonne hie him selfum to swiðe truwiað, hie forsioð oðre men, & eac forcweðað. Đa lytelmodan ðonne & ða unðristan, ðonne hie ongietað hiera unbældo & hiera unmihte, hie weorðað oft ormode. Đa modgan ðonne & ða fortruwodan, eall hiera agen ðæt hie synderlice ðenceað oððe doð hie wenað ðæt ðæt sie ðæt betste; ac ða unmodegan & ða ungedyrstegan wenað ðæt ðæt swiðe forsewenlic sie ðætte hie doð, & forðon weorðað oft ormode. Ac ðæm lareowe is swiðe smealice to underseceanne be ðæm weorcum ðara ofertruwudena, ðæt hie him gecyðen ðætte on ðæm ðingum þe hie him selfum swæ swiðe liciað, ðæt hie Gode misliciað. Swæ we mægon betst ða geðyrstegan gelaran ðætte, ðonne hie wenen ðæt hie hæbben betst gedon, ðæt we him ðonne secgen ðæt hie hæbben wyrst gedon, ðætte, ðonne hie wenen ðæt hie ðone gilp & ðæt lof begiten hæbben ðæt hie ær wilnodon, ðæt hie ðonne hæbben mid ðy scame geholude. Hwilum eac, ðonne ða fortruwodan & ða anwillan wenað ðæt hie nane scylde ðurhtogen næbben, ðonne magon we hie swæ raðust to ryhte gecyrran ðæt we him sume opene scylde, þe ær ðurhtogen wære, healfunga oðwiten, ðæt hie forðæm scamige, forðæm of ðære scylde ðe he hiene ðonne bereccean [ne] mæg[e], he ongiete ða þe he ðonne deð, ðeah him ðonne ðynce ðæt he

XXXII. That the proud and puffed up in spirit are to be admo- nished in one way, in another the humble and faint- hearted. The proud and presumptuous are to be admonished in one way, in another the humble and diffident. The presumptuous, when too con- fident in themselves, despise and revile others. The fainthearted and diffident, perceiving their want of courage and strength, often despair. The proud and presumptuous think that all their own special thoughts or deeds are the best; but the humble and timid think that what they do is very contemptible, and therefore often despair. But the teacher