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Hatton MS.] lice & unslawlice lærað ðæt ðæt hie ðonne cunnon, ðæt is ðæt him scylen hiera wisdom bion geieced & gemanigfalðod. Salomon cuæð: Ðæs mon[n]es sawl ðe wel spricð hio bið amæst, ond swa hwa swa oðerne drencð, he wirð self oferdruncen. Swa eac se ðe út wel lærð mid his wordum, he onfehð innan ðæs inngeðonces fætnesse, ðæt is wisdóm. Swa eac se ðe ne wirnð ðæs wines his lare ða mod mid to oferdrencan[n]e ðe hine gehieran willað, he bið eac oferdrenced & wel aféd mid ðæm drence mislicra & monigfaldra giefa. Hwæt we hirdon ðætte Dauid brohte God to lacum ðæt ðæt he ða lare ne hæl ðe him God geaf. Ðæt he cyðde, ða he cwæð: Dryhten, ðu wast ðæt ic ne wyrne minra welera, & ðine ryhtwisnesse ic secgge. Gehierað hwæt on Cantica Canticorum is awriten ðæt se brydguma scolde sprecan to ðære bryde, he cwæð: Hlyst hiden, ðu ðe eardasð on freondes orcgearde, & gedoo ðæt ic mæge gehiran ðine stemne. Ðæt is seo halige gesomnung Godes folces, ðæt eardað on æppeltunum, ðonne hie wel begað hira plantan & hiera impan, oð hie fulweaxne beoð. Ðæt bið ðonne ðæt mon his stemne gehiere, ðonne ða gecorenan menn giornfulle bioð his worda to gehlystanne. & ðonne wilnað se brydguma, ðæt is Crist, ðæt he gehire ða stemne ðære bryde, ðæt is Cristenra monna gesomnung, ðonne he ðurh gesce[a]dwisra & him gecorenra monna mod him to clipað, & hie lærð ðurh hiora muð. Eac hie sculon gehieran hwæt Moyses dyde, ða he ongeat ðæt God wæs ðæm folce ierre, he bebead ðæt menn namen hiora sweord Godes andan mid to wrecanne, & cwæð ðæt ða scolden bion synderlice Godes ðegnas, ða ðe unwandiende ðara Hear also what is written in the Song of Songs, how the bridegroom spoke to the bride: "Listen here, thou who dwellest in a friend's orchard, make me able to hear thy voice." That is, the holy assembly of God's people, which lives in orchards, when they carefully tend their plants and shoots till they are full-grown. Hearing his voice is when the elect are eager to listen to his words. And the Bridegroom, that is Christ, desires to hear the voice of the bride, that is the assembly of Christians, when he calls to them through the minds of wise men, who are chosen by him, and teaches them through their mouth. They ought also to hear what Moses did, when he saw that God was angry with the people; he bade men to take their sword to avenge God's anger, and said that those who unhesitatingly slew the sins of the guilty