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279 micle freolicor he tælð on his ingeðonce ealle oðre men swæ he læs ongiett his agene uncysta. Eac sint to manian ða swiðe swiggean ðæt hie geornlice tilien to witanne ðæt him nis na ðæs anes ðearf to ðenceanne hwelce hie hie selfe utane eowigen mannum, ac him is micle mare ðearf ðæt hie geðencen hwelce hie hie innan geeowigen Gode, & ðæt hie swiður him ondræden for hiera geðohtum ðone diglan Deman, ðe hie ealle wat, ðonne hie him ondræden for hiera wordum & dædum hiera geferena tælinge. Hit is awriten on Salomonnes cwidum : Sanu min, ongiet minne wisdom & minne wærscipe, & beheald ðin eagan & ðinne earan to ðam ðætte ða mæge ðin geðoht gehealdan. Forðæm nan wuht nis on us unstilre & ungestæððigre ðonne ðæt mod, forðæm hit gewit swæ oft from us swæ us unnytte geðohtas to cumað, & æfter ælcum ðara toflewð. Be ðæm cwæð se psalmscop: Min mod & min wisdom me forlet. And eft he gehwearf to him selfum, & wearð on his agenum gewitte, & cwæð: Đin ðeow hæfð nu funden his wisdom, ðæt is ðæt he hiene gebidde to ðe. Forðæm, ðonne monn his mod gehæfð, ðæt ðæt hit ær gewunode to fleonne bið gemett. Oft eac ða swiðe swiggean, ðonne hie monige unnytte geðohtas innan habbað, ðonne weorðað hie him to ðy maran sare innan, gif hie hie ut ne sprecað, & hwilum gebyreð, gif he hit gedæftelice asægð ðæt he mid ðy his sorge gebett. Hwæt we wieton ðæt sio diegle wund bið sarre ðonne sio opene, forðæm ðæt worsm ðæt ðærinne gehweled bit, gif hit bið utforlæten, ðonne bið sio wund geopenod to hælo ðæs sares. Eac sculon wietan ða þe ma swigiað ðonne hie ðyrfen, ðætte hie hiera

greatly elated, and the less he notices his own vices the more freely be blames all other men in his heart. The very silent are also to be admonished eagerly to strive to understand that it is not only neces- sary for them to consider how they are to display themselves outwardly to men, but it is much more necessary for them to consider how they are to display themselves internally to God; and that they are more to dread the secret Judge who knows them all, on account of their thoughts, than the blame of their companions for their words and deeds. It is written in the Proverbs of Solomon : “My son, attend to my wisdom and prudence, and direct thine eyes and ears to being able to guard thy thoughts.". For there is nothing in us more restless and changeable than the mind, for it departs from us as often as vain