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Hatton MS.] XII. Hu se [se ðe] gedafenlice & endebyrdlice to cymð, hu he ðærón drohtian scyle.

Þæs biseepes weorc sceolon bion ofer oðra monna weorc sua micle beteran sua hit micel bið betwux ðæs hirdes life & ðære hoorde. Him gedafenað ðæt he geðence & geornlice smeage hu micel niedðearf him is ðæt he sie gebunden to ðære ryhtwisnesse mid ðy rápe ðæt he ongite for hwæs geðyncðum ðæt fole sie genemned heord. Hwæt ðæm hierde ðonne wel gerist ðæt he sie healic on his weorcum, & his word sien nyttwyrðu, & on his suigean he sie gescadwís; him sculan eglan oðerra monna brocu suelce he efnsuiðe him ðrowige; he sceal sorgian ymbe ealle & foreðencean; he sceal bion for ðæt eaðmodnesse hira gefera ælces ðara ðe wel doo; h[e] sceal bion stræc wið ða ðe ðær agyltað, ond for ryhtwisnesse he sceal habban andan to hira yfele; ond ðeah for ðara bisgunge ne sie his g[i]emen na ðy læsse ymb ða gehirsuman; ne eac for hira lufan geornfulnesse ne forlæte he ða ungehirsuman. Ac ðis ðæt we nu feam wordum arimdon we willað hwene rumedlicor heræfter areccean.

XIII. Hu se lareow sceal bion clæne on his mode.

Se reccere sceal bion simle clæne on his gebohte, ðætte nan unclænnes hine ne besmite ðonne he ða ðegnunga underfehð, forðæm ðæt he mæge adrygean of oðra monna heortan ðæt ðæron fules sie. Hit is ðearf ðæt sio hond sie ær geclænsad ðe wille ðæt fenn of oðerre aðierran; gif sio ðonne bið eac fennegu, ðon(n)e is

righteousness he must feel indignation at their ill deeds; and yet in his care of them he is not to neglect the obedient; nor also in his love of the latter is he to neglect the disobedient. But this which we have now briefly recounted we will treat more at length in the following chapters.

XIII. How the teacher is to be pure in heart.

The teacher must be ever pure in heart, that no impurity defile him when he undertakes the ministration, to enable him to wipe off the impurity of other men's hearts. It is needful for the hand to have been cleaned beforehand which is to wipe off the dirt from the other; if it is also dirty there is reason to expect that it will dirty the