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Hatton MS.] h[i]e mæstne demm & mæste scande ðrowigen, & hie forsewenuste bioð for worulde. On ðæs sacerdes hrægle was toeacan golde & iacincte & pur[pu]ran, dyrodine twegera bleo. Ðæt tacnað ðætte eal ða gód & ða mægenu ðe heo do beon gewlitegode mid ðære lufan Godes & monna beforan ðæm eagum ðæs ecean Deman, ðætte se spearca ðara godra weorca ðe her tuinclað beforan ma[n]num, bierne healice li[c]ge on ðære inncundan lufan beforan ðæm dieglan Deman. Sio lufu ðonne hio lufað ætsomne ægðer ge God ge his niehstan, hio scind suiðe smicere ón twæm bleom sua sua twegea bleo godwebb. Se ðonne se ðe sua higað ealneweg to andweardnesse his scip[p]endes, & agiemeleasað ða giemene his nihstena, oððe eft sua singallice folgað ðære giemenne h[i]s niehstena, ðæt he agiemeleasað ða godcundan lufe, ðonne hæfð he anforlæten ðæt twegea bleo godwebb ðæt he habban sceolde on ðæm halgan hrægle, gif he auðer ðissa forlæt. Ac ðonne ðæt mod bis aðened on ða lufan ægðer ge Godes ge his niehstena, ne bið hit ðonne nohtes [h]won buton forhæfdnesse anre, ðæt he his lichoman suence & hlænige. Forðon is toeacan ðæm twiblion godwebbe ðæt scyle beon twiðræwen twin on ðæm mæssegierelan. Of ðære eorðan cymeð ðæt fleax, ðæt bið hwites hiwes. Hwæt mæg ðonne elles beon getácnod ðurh ðæt fleax butan lichoman clænnes, sio sceal scinan of clænre heortan? Forðæm bið gefæstnod ðæt getræwene twin to ðæm wlite ðæs mæssehrægles, forðam sio clænnes bið ðonne to fulbeor[h]tum wlite becumen, ðonne ðæt flæsc bið gesuenced ðurh færhæfdnesse, & ðonne betweox oðrum mægenum bis ðionde sio e[a]rnu[n]g ðæs gesuenctan flæsces,

on the other hand, is always so intent on the care of his neighbours as to neglect the divine love, has omitted the double-dyed purple, which he ought to have on the holy vestment, if he forsake either of these two. And when the mind is exalted with the love of God and its neighbours, there is nothing wanting but abstinence, with which he must mortify and starve the flesh. Therefore, besides the twice-dyed cloth, there is to be on the surplice twice-spun linen. Flax comes from the earth and is of a white colour. What can be signified by the flax but bodily purity, which must shine from a pure heart? The woven linen is fastened to the beautiful surplice because purity attains resplendent beauty when the flesh is mortified by abstinence,