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214 GREGORY'S PASTORAL. [Cotton MSS. ðæt hie wenden ðæt hie ðæs þe untælwyrðran wæron þe hie wendon ðæt he nyste hiera leohtmodnesse & hiera unfæstrædnesse.

XXXIII. Đætte on oðre wisan sint to manianne ða ungeðyldegan, & on oðre ða geðyldegan.

On oðre wisan sint to manianne þa ungeðyldegan, on oðre ða geðyldegan. Đæm ungeðyldegum is to sæcganne ðætte hie ne agimeleasien ðæt hie hiera mod gebridligen, ðæt hie ne hliepen unwillende on ðæt scorene clif unðeawa; swæ hit oft gebyreð ðæt sio hatheortnes & seo hrædwilnes ðæt mod gebrengð on ðæm weorce þe hiene ær nan willa to ne spon, & deð ðeah swæ astyred, swelce he hit ungewisses oððe ungewealdes do, ðæt him eft gehreoweð, siððan he hit wat. Forðæm him is to sæcgeanne ðæt hie weorðað oft ascrencte on ðæm scyfe ðære styringe hiera modes, ðæt hie hiera selfra ne agon ðy mare geweald þe operra monna, & swiðe seldon magon ongietan hiera agen yfel, ærðon hie hit ðurhtogen habbað. Ac gif he ðonne ðære styringe ne wiðstent, ðonne gescent he ða godan weorc þe he oft ær on stillum mode ðurhteah, & swæ ungleawlice for ðæm scyfe ðære styringe swiðe hrædlice towyrpð þa godan weorc þe hie longe ær foreðonclice timbre & ða geðylde þe is modur & hierde ealra mægena for ðæm unwrence ðære ungeðylde forlett, & eac ðæt mægen ðære soðan lufan he forlæt. Hit is awriten on Paules bocum ðæt sio Godes lufu sie geðyld, & se þe gegyldig ne sie, ðæt he næbbe ða Godes lufe on him. For ðæm unðeawe ðære ungeðylde wierð utadrifen sio fostermodur ælcre

had been dreading it long, but forbade them to let it be so, wishing them to deem themselves the less culpable by thinking that he did not know their frivolity and inconstancy. XXXIII. That the impatient are to be admonished in one way, in another the patient. The impatient are to be admonished in one way, in another the patient. The impatient are to be told not to neglect bridling their mind, lest involuntarily they leap down the abrupt cliff of vices; as it often happens that impetuosity and hastiness bring the mind to the deed to which no desire allured it before, and so make it agitated, as if he did it unconsciously or involuntarily, so that he afterwards repented