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302 ðone weorðscipe mannum ðe hie Gode don scoldon. Oft eac ða upahæfenan, ðeah hie hwilum unforwandodlice sprecen, ðonne hie hwelces unðeawes stiran sculon, ðonne gesugiað hie for ege, & tiochiað ðæt ðæt scyle bion for eaðmettum, & ðonne hie sprecað, ðonne wenað hie [ðæt hie] sprecen for unforwandodlicre & orsorglicre ryhtwisesse. Ac hit bið oftor for ðære ungeðylde hiera upahæfenesse. Đa eaðmodan ðonne bioð oft geðrycte mid ðære synne ðæs eges, ðonne hie ne durron unðeawas tælan, & licettað ðeah ðæt hie ðæt don ðurh eaðmodnesse. Ac ða upahæfenan, ðonne hie licettað ðæt him ne sie nawuhtes cearu ofer ða ryhtwisnesse, weorðað ðonne unmidlod[e] sua & aðundene geniedde mid hiera upahæfenesse ðæt hie ða tælað & ðreatigað ðe hie ðreatian ne sceoldon, oððe [ða] ðe hie ðreatigan sceoldon suiður ðreatiað ðonne hie sceolden. Forðæm sint to manianne ða upahæfenan ðæt hie ne sien bealdran & orsorgra[n] ðonne hie scylen, ond ða eaðmodan sint to manianne ðæt hie ne sien suiður underðiedde ðonne hie mid ryhte scylen, ðylæs ða modgan ða forespræce ðære ryhtwisnesse gehwierfen to ofermodnesse, oððe eft ða eaðmodan ðonne hie [ma] wilniað oðrum monnum underðiedde beon ðonne hie ðyrfen, weorðen geniedde h[i]era unðeawas to herianne & to weorðianne. Eac is to geðencanne ðætte mon mæg oft ðy bet ða ofermodan

Some, who think they are humble, out of fear yield the honour to men which they owe to God. Often also the proud, though they sometimes speak unhesitatingly, when they have to correct some fault are silent from fear, and think it is out of humility, and when they speak, they think they speak from unrestrained and fearless righteousness. But it is oftener from the impatience of their pride. The humble are often oppressed by the sin of timidity, when they dare pot blame faults, pre- tending to do so out of humility. But the proud, when they pretend to care for nothing but virtue, are compelled with the pride of their unrestrained elation to blame and threaten those they should not, or threaten those that they ought more than they ought. Therefore the proud are to be warned not to be bolder and more confident than they ought to be, and the humble are be warned not to be more subser- vient than they ought properly to be; lest the proud pervert the advo- cacy of righteousness to presumption, or again, the humble, when they desire to be more subject to others than they ought, be compelled to praise and respect their faults. It must also be borne in mind, that the proud can often be better rebuked if they are sustained during the