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296 GREGORY'S PASTORAL. [Cotton MSS. oððe sprecan oððe dón, oðerne he lærð ðæt he ða scande forgielde. Ac hit gebyreð oftost ðæt se bið oferswiðed, se þe ðurh diofles lare ærest bið onæled mid ðy unryhtum niðe, ðeah he swæ ne wene, ðonne he hit ærest onginð; and se hæfð oftost ðone weorðscipe se þe ær geðyldelice þa scande forbær. Ac ðonne se dioful hæfð ðone ærran gewunnenne, & he bið under his geoc gegan, ðonne went he mid ealle cræfte ongean ðæs oðres geðyld, þe him ðonne git wiðwind, & bið swiðe sarig, forðæmþe he on ðæm forman gefeohte hiene ne meahte ofsceotan mid ðæm bismere, ðe he ðurh ðone oðerne him to sende. Læt ðonne an ðæt gefeoht swæ openlice sume hwile, & onginð hiene diegellice læran, & slitan his ingeðoht, & bitt ðære tide, hwonne he ðæs wyrðe sie ðæt he hiene beswican mote. Forðæm he hiene ne meahte mid openlicum gefeohte oferswiðan, sætað ðonne digelice, & secð hu he hiene mæge gefón. Se geðyldega ðonne eft, ðonne ðæt gestilled bið, ðonne went he eft ongean mid his mode, & gemon ðone demm oððe ðæt bismer, ðæt him ær gedon wæs, & ðonne swiðe hrædlice & swiðe ungemetlice eahtað eall ðæt him ær gedon wæs, & hit ðonne swiðe unaberendlic talað, & mid swæ micelre murcunga his agen mod gedrefð, ðætte oft ðone geðyldegestan scamað ðæs siges þe he ofer ðone dioful hæfde mid his geðylde, & he ðonne swæ gebunden from ðæm diofle sargað ðæs, & him ofðyncð ðæt he hit swæ emne & swæ geðyldelice forbær ðæt he ðæt bismer ne forgeald, & ðencð ðæs timan hwonne he hit wyrs geleanian mæge. Ac hwæm beoð ðonne ðas ðyllecan gelicran ðonne ðæm folce þe on clænum felda weorðlicne sige gefeohtað, & eft innan hiera burgum fæste belocene ðurh hiera giemeliste hie lætað

come, who through the devil's advice is first inflamed with the un- righteous anger, although he thinks it not, when he first begins it; and he has oftenest the honour who before endured the disgrace patiently. But when the devil has won the first, and he has passed under his yoke, he turns with all his night against the patience of the other, who still resists him, and is greatly grieved because in the former fight he could not wound him with the disgrace which he inflicted on him through the other. So he ostensibly gives up the contest for a time, and begins to advise him secretly, and to wound his mind, waiting for the time when he is fit to be deceived. Not being able to conquer him in open fight, he besets him secretly, and seeks