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Hatton MS.] GREGORY'S PASTORAL. 23 LXII. Đætte hwilum ða leohtan scylda beoð beteran to forlætan, ðylæs ða hefegran weorðen ðurhtogen.

LXIII. Đætte ða untruman mód mon ne scyle eallinga to helice læran.

LXIIII. Be ðæm weorcum ðæs lareowes & be his wordum.

LXV. Đonne hwa ðis eall gefylled hæbbe, hu he ðonne sceal hine selfne geðencean & ongietan, ðylæs hine auðer oððe his lif oððe his lar tó úpáhebbe.

Þu leofusta broður, suiðe freondlice & suiðe fremsumlice ðu me tældesð, & [mid] eaðmode ingeðonce ðu me ciddesð, forðon ic min máð, & wolde fleon ða byrðenne ðære hirdelecan giemenne. Đara byrðenna hefignesse, eall ðæt ic his geman, ic awrite on ðisse andweardan béc, ðylæs hi hwæm leohte ðyncen to underfónne ; & ic eac lære ðæt hira nan ðara ne wilnie ðe hine unwærlice begá; & se ðe hi unwærlice & únryhtlice gewilnige, ondræde he ðæt he hi æfre u[n]derfenge. Nu ic wilnige ðætte ðeos spræc stigge on ðæt ingeðonc ðæs leorneres, suæ suæ on sume hlædre, stæpmælum near & near, oððæt hio fæstlice gestonde on ðæm solore ðæs modes ðe hi leornige ; & forðy ic [hi] todæle [on] feower: án is ðara dæla hu he on [ðone] folgoð becume; oðer hu he ðæron libbe; ðridda is hu he ðæron lære ; feorde is hu he his agene unðeawas ongietan wille & hira geðæf bion, ðylæs he for ðy underfenge his eaðmodnesse forlæte, oððe eft his lif sie ungelic his ðenunga, oððe he to ðriste & to stið sie for ðy underfenge his lareowdomes; ac gemetgige

of in this present book, lest they seem to any one easy to under- take ; and I also advise no one to desire them who manages them rashly; and let him who desires them rashly and unrighteously fear ever undertaking them. Now I wish this discourse to rise in the mind of the learner as on a ladder, step by step, nearer and nearer, until it firmly stands on the floor of the mind which learns it; and therefore I divide it into four parts : one of the divisions is how he is to attain the dignity; the second how he is to live in it; the third is how he is to teach in it; the fourth is how he is to desire to perceive his own faults, and subdue them, lest, having at- tained it, he lose his humility, or, again, lest his life be unlike his ministration, or he be too presumptuous and severe because he has