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Hatton MS.] gesomnung, sie ðam beboden ðe hie wel ófer mæge, & hiere wél rǽdan cunne. Gif hire ðonne se wiðsace, ðonne is cynn ðæt him spiwe ðæt wif on ðæt nebb, ðæt is ðæt hine tæle ðæs folces gesomnung, emne suelce hie him on ðæt nebb spæten, forðonðe he nyle giefan ðæt him God geaf, & helpan ðæs folces mid ðam ðe he his healp. Sua is cynn ðæt sio halige gesomnung tæle ælces ðara gód ðe hit him anum wile to gode habban, & nyle oðer(r)a mid helpan. Se bið eac mid ryhte oðre fet anscod, & hine mon scyle on bismer hatan se anscóda. Be ðæm cuæð Crist on his gospelle: Sceawiað iowre fet, ðæt ge sien gearwe to ganganne on sibbe wég æfter minra boca bebodum. Gief we ðonne habbað sua micle sorge & sua micle gieman urra niehstena sua sua ure selfra, ðonne hæbbe we begen fet gescóde suiðe untællice; gif we ðonne agiemeleasiað urra niehstena ðearfa, & ðenceað ymbe ure synderlice, ðonne bið us suiðe fracoðlice oðer fót unscód. Monige menn siendon, sua sua we ær cuædon, ðe beoð geweorðode mid miclum & mid monegum [Godes] giefiim, & ðonne beoð onælede mid ðære gieminge ðara smeaunga Godes wisdomes anes, ðæt fleoð ðonne ða nyttwyrðan hiersumnesse ðære lare, & nyllað ðæs ðencean hu hie mægen nyttweorðuste bion hiera niehstum, ac lufiað diegla stowa, & fleoð monna onsiena. Gif him ðonne God ryhtlice & stræclice deman wile, & he him for his mildheortnesse ne arað, ðonne beoð hie su[a] monegum scyldum scyldige sua [h[i]e] manegra unðeawa gestiran meahton mid hiora larum & bisenum, gif hi ongemong monnum beon wolden. Hwæt ðenceað ða ðe on suelcum weorcum scinað, & magon

blamelessly; but if we neglect the wants of our neighbours, and think about our own specially, then one of our feet is very disgracefully unshod. There are many men, as we have remarked above, who are honoured with great and many gifts of God, and then are inflamed with the desire of the contemplation of God's wisdom alone, and so avoid the profitable obedience of teaching, and will not consider how they can be most useful to their neighbours, but love solitude and shun the face of men. But if God determines to judge them righteously and severely, and does not of his mercy spare them, they are guilty of as many sins as they could have corrected faults with their instruction and example, if they had been willing to associate with men. What reason have those, who shine with such works and can be so useful to their neighbours, for trusting rather