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344 forðæm, hie gemunon ðone tohopan þe hie to ðæm gestrionum habbað, & forgietað hiora demm þe him of ðæm gestreonum cymð, oððe becom.

XLVI. Dætte on ofre wisan sint to manianne ða geðwæran, on oðre ða ungeðwaran.

On oðre wisan sint to manianne ða gesibsuman, on oðre ða ungesibsuman. Ða ungesibouman sint to manianne ðæt hie gewisslice witen ðæt hie no on to ðæs monegum godum cræftum ne ðioð, ðæt hie æfre mægen gastlice bion, gif hie ðurh ungemodnesse agiemeleasiað ðæt hie anmode bion nyllað on ryhte & on gode. Hit is awriten on sancte Paules bocum ðætte ðæs gastes wæstm sie lufu & gefea & ryhtwislicu sibb. Se þe ðonne ne gemð hwæðer he ða sibbe healde, ðonne forsecð he ðone wæstm his gastes. Eft cwæð sanctus Paulus: Ðonne betweoxn eow bið yfel anda & geflita, hu ne bioð ge ðonne flæsclice? And eft he cwæð: Seceað sibbe & god to eallum monnum; butan ðære ne mæg nan mon God gesion. Ond eft he manode, & cwæð: Geornlice gebinde ge iow tosomne mid anmodnesse & mid sibbe, ðæt ge sien swæ gelices modes swæ ge sint gelices lichoman, swæ swæ ge ealle sint gelaðode to anum tohopan. To ðæm gebanne ðæs tohopan nan man ne mæg cuman, butan he ðider irne mid anmodnesse wið his niebsten. And ðeah wel manige onfoð synderlicre gife, & ðonne ofermodgiende forlætað ða giefe þe mare is, ðæt is sio anmodnes; swæ swæ manige doð, gemidliað hiora gifernesse, & atemiað hiora lichoman ðæt hie magon bet fæstan ðonne oðre, &

as it were, put it in a purse with holes in it, because they remember their hope of the property, but forget the injury they suffer from it, or have suffered. XLVI. That the peaceful are to be admonished in one way, in another the quarrelsome. The peaceful are to be admonished in one way, in another the quar- relsome. The quarrelsome are to be admonished to know certainly that they do not possess so many good qualities, as ever to be able to be spiritual, if through strife they neglect to live properly and vir- tạously on good terms with others. It is written in the books of St. Paul, that the fruit of the Spirit is love, and joy, and righteous