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Hatton MS.] GREGORY'S PASTORAL. for sodfæstnesse ðæt we lufigen gesuinc, & orsorgnesse we ondræden, & hi forðy forbugen. Forðam for ðære orsorgnesse monn oft áðint on ofermettum, & ða earfeðu ðurh sár & ður(h) sorge hiene geclænsiað & geeаðmedað. On ðæm gesundfulnessum ðæt mód wierð úpáhafen ; & on ðæm earfeðum, ðeah hit ær úpáhafen wære, hit bið geeаðmedd. On ðære gesundfulnesse mon forgiett his selfes; on ðæm gesuincum he sceal hine selfne geðencean, ðeah he nylle. On ðære orsorgnesse oft ðæt he to gode gedyde he forliesð; on ðæm earfoðum oft ðæt he longe ær to yfle gedyde, he gebett. Suiðe oft monn bið ðære earfoðnesse lareowdome underðieded, ðeah he ær nolde his lareowes ðeawum & larum bion. Ac ðeah hine ðonne ða brocu getýn & gelæren, sona, gif he on rice becymð, for ðære weorðunge ðæs folces, he bið ón ofermettu awended, & gewunað to ðæm gielpe. Sua sua Saul s[e] cyning, æresð he fleah ðæt rice, & tealde hine selfne his suide únwierðne. Ac sona sua he ðone anwald onfeng ðæs rices, he ástag on ofermetto, & hine bealg wið ðone ilcan Samuel ðe hine ær on ðæm rice gebrohte, & hine to gehalgode, forðamðe he him sæde beforan ðam folce his únðeawas, ða he him ær hiera ðonces gestieran ne meahte ; & ða he him from wolde, ða gefeng he hine, & toslat his hrægl, & hine geunarode. Sua eac Dauið, ðe folneah on eallum ðingum Gode licode, sona sua he ða byrðenne næfde sua monegra earfeða, he wæs mid ofermettum gewundad, & ðæt suiðe wælhreowlice gecyðde on Urias slæge hi[s] agenes holdes ðegnes, for ðære scamleaslecan gewilnunge his wifes. Se ilca se monegum yfelum

teacher. But although schooled and taught by adversity, soon, if he attain to power, through the homage of the people he becomes proud and accustomed to presumption. As king Saul at first declined the throne, and deemed himself quite unworthy of it. But as soon as he obtained the rule of the kingdom, he became proud, and was angry with that same Samuel who formerly brought him to the throne, and consecrated him, because he told him of his faults before the people, since he could not control him before with their approval ; and when he wished to depart from him, he seized him, and tore his clothes, and insulted him. So also David, who pleased God in nearly everything, as soon as he had not the burden of so many troubles, he was wounded with pride, and showed it very cruelly in the murder 3-2