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236 GREGORY'S PASTORAL. [Cotton MSS. scylde forweorðað ða godan weorc, ðeah þe hie beforan monna eagum ðyncen trumlice gedon. Đæt is ðæt ða ban forrotigen for ðæm æfste ðæt he forleose sum swiðe god weorc for ðæm æfste.

XXXV. Dætte on oðre wisan sint to manianne ða bilwitan, on oðre ða ðweoran [& þa lytegan].

On oðre wisan sint to manianne ða bilwitan, on oðre ða lytegan. Đa bilwitan sint to herigeanne, forðæmþe hie simle swincað on ðæm ðæt hie tiliað ðæt hie ne scielen leasunga sæcgean. Hie mon sceal eac læran ðæt hie hwilum swugien ðæs soðes, forðæm, swæ swæ sio leasung simle dereð ðæm secgendum, swæ dereð eac hwilum sumum monnum ðæt soð to gehieronne. Forðæm ure Dryhten gemetgode mid swiggean his spræce beforan his ðegnum, ða he cwæð: Fela ic hæbbe eow to sæcganne, ac ge hit ne magon nu git aberan. Đy sint to manianne ða bilwitan anfealdan ðætte, swæ swæ hie ða leasunga nytwyrðlice fleoð, ðæt hie eac ðæt soð nytwyrðlice secgen, & geiecen ðæt god hiera anfealdnesse mid wærscipe, & swæ tilige ðære orsorgnesse mid ðære anfealdnesse ðætte hie ðone ymbeðonc ðæs wærscipes ne forlæte. Be ðæm cwæð se æðela lareow sanctus Paulus : Ic wille ðæt ge sien wise to gode & bilewite to yfele. Ond eft be ðæm cwæð Dryhten ðurh hiene selfne to his gecorenum : Bio ge swæ ware swæ nædran, & swæ bilwite swæ culfran. Fordæm on ðara acorenra monna heortan sceal ðære nædran lytignes & hiere nið ðære culfran bilwitnesse gescierpan, & eft ðære culfran bilwitnes sceal gemetgian ðære nædran wærscipe & hiere nið, ðylæs hiene se wærscipe & se anda

strongly wrought. The bones decaying through envy is his losing any very good work through envy. XXXV. That the simple are to be admonished in one way, in another the perverse and cunning. The simple are to be admonished in one way, in another the cun- ning. The simple are to be praised, because they always laboriously endeavour not to tell falsehoods. They are also to be taught some- times to keep back the truth, because, as falsehood always injures the speaker, so also it sometimes injures some men to hear the truth. Therefore our Lord restrained his speech with silence before his dis-