Page:King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care (2).djvu/279

270 GREGORY'S PASTORAL. (Cotton MSS. bioð eac ful oft ða wunda mid ele gehælda, ða þe mon mid gesnide gebetan ne meahte. And eac se hearda stan, se þe aðamans hatte, ðone mon mid nane isene ceorfan ne mæg, gif his mon hrinð [onhrinð] mid buccan blode, he hnescað ongean ðæt liðe blod to ðæm swiðe ðæt hiene se cræftega wyrcean mæg to ðæm þe he wile.

XXXVIII. Þætte on oðre wisan sindon to manianne ða þe to swiðe swigge bioð, on oðre wisan ða þe willað to fela idles & unnyttes gesprecan.

On oðre wisan sint to manianne ða swiðe swiggean, on oðre wisan ða þe bioð aidlode on oferspræce. Đa swiðe swiggean mon sceal læran ðætte hie, ðonne ðonne hie sumne unðeaw unwærlice fleoð, ðæt hie ne sien to wiersan gecierde, & ðæron befealdne, swæ him oft gebyreð, ðonne hie hiera tungan ungemetlice gemidliað ðæt hie beoð micle heficlicor gedrefde on hiera heortan ðonne ða ofersprecan, forðæm for ðære swiggean hiera geðohtas bioð aweallene on hiera mode, forðæm hie hie selfe niedað to healdonne ungemetlice swiggean, & forðæm bioð swiðe geðrycte. Forðæm gebyreð oft ðæt hie bioð swæ micle ungestæððelicor toflowene on hiera mode swæ hie wenað ðæt hie stilran & orsorgran beon mægen for hiera swiggean. Ac forðæmþe mon ne mæg utane on him ongietan for hiera swiggean hwæt mon tæle, hio bioð innane oft ahafene on ofermettum, swæ ðæt hie ða felasprecan forsio, & hie for nauht dot, & ne ongietað na hu swiðe hie onlucað hiera mod mid ðæm unðeawe ofermetta, ðeah hie ðæs lichoman muð belucen; ðeah sio tunge eaðmodlice licge, ðæt mod bið swiðe upahafen, & swæ

wounds very often healed with oil, which are not improved by lancing ; and also the hard mineral called adamant, which no steel can cut, if sprinkled with the blood of a he-goat, softens so much with the liquid blood that the workman can make what he likes of it. XXXVIII. That those who are too silent are to be admonished in one way, in another those who are given to speaking too much that is useless and unprofitable. The very silent are to be admonished in one way, in another those who waste themselves with loquacity. The very silent are to be advised, when they avoid a vice incautiously, not to turn to a worse one and involve themselves therein, as it often happens to them that,