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292 hæfde. Oðerne he draf swiðe geornfullice mid sticele, oðrum he wiðteah mid bridle. Witodlice se mæra londbegengea, ðæt wæs sanctus Paulus, he underfeng ða halgan gesamnung to plantianne & to ymbhweorfanne, swæ se ceorl deð his ortgeard. Sumu treowu he watrade, to ðæm ðæt hie ðe swiður sceolden weaxan. Sumu he cearf ðonne him ðuhte ðæt hie to swiðe weoxen, ðylæs hie to ðæm forweoxen ðæt hie forseаroden, & ðy unwæstmbærran wæren. Sumu twigu he leahte mid wætre, ðonne hie to hwon weoxon, ðæt hie ðy swiðor weaxan sceolden. Ac ða iersunga siendon swiðe ungelica : oðer bið swelce hit sie irres anlicnes, ðæt is ðæt mon wille wið odrum his yfel aðreatian, & hine on ryhtum gebringan, oðer bið tæt irre ðæt mon sie gedrefed on his mode butan ælcre ryhtwisnesse; oðer ðara irsunga bið to ungemetlice & to ungedafenlice atyht on ðæt þe hio mid ryhte irsian sceal, oðer on ðæt þe bio ne sceal bið ealneg to swiðe onbærned. Eac is to wiotonne ðætte hwæthwugu bið betweoh ðæm irsiendan & ðæm ungeðyldegan, ðæt is ðæt ða ungeðyldegan ne magon aberan nanwuht ðæs laðes þe him mon on liegeð oððe mid wordum oððe mid dædum, ða irsiendan ðonne him to geteoð ðæt ðæt hie eaðe butan beon meahton : ðeah hie nan mon mid laðe ne grett, hie willað grillan oðre men to ðæm ðæt hie niede sculon, & secað ða þe hie fleoð, & styriað geflietu & geciid, & fægniað ðæt hie moten swincan on ungeðwærnesse. Ða swelcan we magon ealra betest geryhtan mid ðy ðæt we hie forbugen, ðonne ðonne hie beoð onstyred mid hiera irre, forðæm, ðonne hie swæ gedrefede beoð, hie nyton hwæt hie ðonne gehierað, ðeah him mon stire, ac eft, ðonne hie hie selfe ongietað, hie onfoð ðære lare swæ

the excesses of the other. The one he zealously drove with a goad, the other he restrained with a bridle. For the great husbandman, that is St. Paul, undertook the care of the holy assembly, to plant and tend, as the labourer does his orchard. Some trees he watered, to make them grow better; some he pruned, when they seemed to grow too luxuriantly, to prevent them growing so much as to wither away and become unfruitful ; some twigs he irrigated with water, when they were slow of growth, to make them grow the better. But there are two very different kinds of anger : the one is, as it were, a counterfeit of anger, when one wishes to dissuade another from his evil ways, and bring him to virtue, and the other consists in a man's mind being agitated without any righteousness; the former kind of anger is too -