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228 GREGORY'S PASTORAL. (Cotton MSS. gegebindan, oððe swelce hie ær lægen on longre mettrymnesse, & hie ðeah gewierpten, & eft cume an lytel fefres, & hie ofslea? Ða geðyldegan sint to manianne ðætte hie hiera heortan getrymmen æfter ðæm miclan sige, & þa burg hiera modes wið stælherigeas behealden, & mid wighusum gefæstnige, swelce hie him ðære adle edcir swiður ondrede ðonne ðone fruman, ðylæs se lytega feond æfter fyrste swiðor fægenige ðæt he hiene mid his lotwrencium beswice, ðeah he hiene ær on openum gefeohte ofercome, & him ðone stiðan swioran fortræde.

XXXIV. Đætte on oðre wisan sint to manianne ða welwillendan, & on odre ða æfstegan.

On oðre wisan sint to manianne þa welwillendan, on oðre ða æfstegan. Đa welwillendan sint to manianne ðæt hie swæ fægenien oðerra monna godra weorca ðæt hie eac selfe ðæs ilcan lyste, & swæ gilpen hiera nihstena dæda ðæt hie him eac onhyrigen. Nimen him bisene on hiera godan weorcum, & iecen hie simle mid hiera agnum, ðylæs hie sien to oðerra monna gefeohte holde haweras, & don him selfe nawuht, & ðonne eft æfter ðæm gefeohte sie butan æghwelcum edleane on ðys andweardan life. Se þe nu on ðæm gefeohte ðisses andweardan lifes nyle swincan, ne his selfes plion, he ongitt eft hine selfne ofercumenne & gescendne, ðonne he gesihð & gehierð ða weorðian þe ær wel ongunnon, ða ða he idel wæs. Swiðe swiðe we gesyngiað, gif we oðerra

enclosed in their cities, through carelessness allow themselves to be captured ; or as if they had lain with a long illness, and yet had recovered, and a trifling fever had come, and killed them ? The patient are to be warned to fortify their hearts after so great a victory, and hold the city of their hearts against predatory hands, and fortify it with battlements, as if they dreaded the return of the disease more than its beginning; lest the wily foe after a time rejoice more in entrapping them with his artifices after they had overcome him in an open fight, and breaking their stubborn necks.