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52 GREGORY'S PASTORAL. [Cotton MSS. monna, & unnledige hie underlutað mid hiora sculdrum oðerra byrðenne toeacan hiora agnum. He ne mæg his agene aberan, & wolde ðeah maran habban.

VIII. Be ðæm þe wilniað biscephad to underfonne, hu hie gripað [gegripað] ðone cwide ðæs apostoles Paules hiora gidsunge to fultome.

Ac ða þe willað gripan on swelene folgoð for hiera gidsunge hie doð him to lade [leafæ] ðone cwide ðe sanctus Paulus cwæð: Se þe biscephad [biscephade] gewilnað, god weorc he gewilnað. Gif he hit þa herede & on tyhte, eft he stirde ðære gewilnunge þa he cwæð: Biscepe gedafenað þæt he sie tælleas. And ðærbufan is geteald hwelc he beon sceal, gif he untælwierðe bið. Mid oðrum worde he hierte, mid oðrum he bregde, swelce he openlice cwæde : Ic herige þæt ge secceað, ac leorniað þæt ge wieten hwæt hit sie, ac gif ge agiemeleasiað þæt ge ameten eow selfe hwelce ge sien, swæ ge eow on hieran folgoðe ahebbað, swæ ge sweotulran & widmærran gedoð eowre tælwierðlicnesse. Swæ se micla cræftega hiertende toscyfð, & egesiende stierð ofermetta mid ðære tælinge his hieremonnum, þæt he hie gebrenge on life. Eac is to geðencenne þæt on ða tid þe se biscephad swæ gehened [gehered] wæs, swæ hwelc swæ hiene underfeng, he underfeng martyrdom. On þa tiid wæs to herianne þæt mon wilnode biscephades, þa þa nan tweo næs þæt he ðurh ðone sceolde cuman to hefegum martyrdome. Đæt is to tacne þæt mon endebyrdlice ðone biscepdom halde, þæt he hiene on godum weorcum geendige. Forðon hit is gecweden : Se þe biscephad gewilnað, god weorc he gewilnað. Se ðonne for

ready cheerfully to undertake those of other men, and needlessly bow their shoulders under the burden of others beside their own. They cannot support their own, and yet desire to have greater ones. VIII. Of those who wish to become bishops, how they seize on the words of the apostle Paul to excuse their desire. But those who wish to seize on such authority excuse their desire with the words of St. Paul : “He who desires to be a bishop, desires a good work.” If he praised and encouraged, again he forbade the desire, saying, “A bishop should be blameless." It is besides said what kind of man he must be to be blameless. With the one speech he encouraged, with the other he dissuaded, as if he had