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232 GREGORY'S PASTORAL. [Cotton MSS. ðeah he hit ðonne giet dón ne meahte, gif he hit wolde lufigean on ðæm oðrum. Ealle ða þe wuniað on anum geleafan & on anum willan hie bioð swæ swæ manegu limo on anum men, & ælc hæfð ðeah sundornytte, & ðeah ða limo mislice todelede sien, ælс hiera bið on oðres nytte swæ sama swæ on his selfes. Đonon hit gewierð ðæt se fot gesihð ðurh ðæt eage, & þæt eage stæp on ðæm fotum, ða earan gehierað for ðone muð, & ðæs muðes tunge sceal faran on ðara earana ðearfe, & sio womb sceal fulteman ðæm hondum, & sio hond sceal wyrcean for ða wombe. On ðæs lichoman gesceafte we underfengon ealle ða ðenunga þe we nu ðeowiað & wyrceað. Forðæm hit is micel scand, gif we nyllað licettan ðæt we sien ðæt we sindon, forðæm butan tweon ðæt bið ure ðæt ðæt we lufiað on oðrum monnum, ðeah we hit selfe don ne mægen, & ðæt oðre men on us lufiað, ðæt bið hiera. Geðencen be ðysum ða æfstegan hu micel mægen bið on ðære lufe ðæt hio gedeð ðæt oðerra monna geswinc & hiera weorc bið ure butan ælcum geswince ures lichoman. Ac ðæm æfstegum is to secganne, gif hie hie nyllað healdan wið ðæm æfste, ðæt hie weordað besencte on ða ealdan unryhtwisnesse ðæs lytegan feondes, þe be him awriten is ðætte for his æfste deað become ofer ealle eorðan. Forðæm þe he hefоnrice mid his agenre scylde forworhte, þa ofðuhte him ðætte men wæron to ðæm gesceapene, & iecte ða his agene scylde mid ðæm æfste, ðæt he tiolode men forlæran ðæt hie wurden eac forlorene swæ he wæs. Eac sint to læronne ða æfstegan ðætte hie ongieten under hu micelre frecennesse hie lieggeað, & hu hie ieceað hiera forwyrd, ðonne hie of hiera heortan nyllað aweorpan ðone æfst, ac hiene

do it, if he would love it in the other. All who continue in one belief and one will, are like many limbs of one man, and each has a special use; and yet, although the limbs are variously apportioned, each is as useful to the other as itself. Thence it happens that the foot sees through the eye, and the eye walks with the feet, the ears hear for the mouth, and the mouth's tongue moves for the benefit of the ears, and the belly has to support the hands, and the hand works for the belly. In the structure of our body we received all the services we now render. Therefore it is a great shame not to imitate what we For doubtlessly that is ours which we love in others, though we cannot do it ourselves, and what others love in us is theirs. are.