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54 GREGORY'S PASTORAL. [Cotton MSS. ðære wilnunge [gewilunge] swelcra weorca biscepdom ne secð, he bið ðonne him selfum [self] gewiota ðæt he wilnað him selfum gilpes; ne deð he ðonne ðæt an yfel ðæt he ne lufað ða halgan ðenunga, ac eallunga he hie forsihð; & ðonne he fundað to ðæm weorðscipe ðæs folgoðes, his mod bið afedd mid ðære smeaunga ðære wilnunge [wilnunga] oðerra monna hiernesse & his selfes upahæfenesse, & fægenað ðæs hu hiene mon sciele herigean. Ahefð ðonne his heortan forðy, & for ðære genyhte ðæs flowendan welan he blissað. He licet eaðmodnesse, & secð mid ðæm ðisses middangeardes gestreon. On ðæm hiewe ðe he sceolde his gilpes stieran on ðæm he his strienð. Mid ðy [ðam] þe he sceolde his gestreon toweorpan, mid ðy he hie gadrað. Đonne ðæt mod ðenceð gegripan him to upahæfenesse ða eaðmodnesse, ðæt ðæt he utan iowað innan he bit awendeð [anwent].

IX. Hu ðæt mod ðætte wilnað fore [for] oðre bion lihð him selfum, ðonne hit ðencð fela godra weorca to wyrceanne, & ðæt licet oðrum monnum, gif he worldare hæbbe, & wile hit ðonne oferhebban, siððan he hio hæfð.

Ac ðonne he wilnað to underfonne þa are & ðone ealdordom, he ðencð on ðæm oferbrædelse his modes ðæt he scile monig god weorc ðæron wyrcean, & he ðencð mid innewearde mode ðæt he girneð for gilpe & for upahæfenesse ðæs folgoðes, smeageað ðeah & ðeahtigeað on hiora modes rinde monig god weorc to wyrceanne, ac on ðæm piðan bið oðer gehyded. Ac on uteweardum his mode he lihð him selfum ymbe hine selfne bi ðæm godum weorcum ; licet ðæt he lufige

bishop, desires a good work.” He, therefore, who does not aspire to that office from the desire of such works, is his own witness that he desires his own vainglory; he not only does wrong in not loving the holy ministration, but altogether slights it; and when he aspires to the honour of rule, his heart is nourished with the contemplation of the desire of having other men subject to him, and his own exaltation, and rejoices in being praised. Hence he is puffed up in spirit, and rejoices in the possession of abundant wealth. He simu- lates humility, and through it seeks the possessions of this world. Under the pretence of mortifying his pride he increases it. Instead of distributing his property he accumulates it. When the mind thinks to make humility a pretext for pride, that which he displays openly he perverts in secret.