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oðre ða þe bioð to hræde ; & on oðre wisan ða manðwaran, on oðre ða grambæran ; & on oðre wisan ða eaðmodan, on oðre ða upahæfenan ; & on oðre wisan ða anwillan, on oðre ða ungestæððegan & ða unfæstrædan ; & on oðre wisan ða ofergifran, on oðre ða fæstendan; & on oðre wisan ða þe mildheortlice hiera agen sellað, on oðre ða þe æfter oðerra monna ierfe flietað, & hie reafiað; & on oðre wisan ða þe nohwæðer ne oðerra monna ne reafiað, ne hiera agen rumedlice ne dælað, on oðre wisan ða þe hiera agen rumedlice sellað, & ne forlætað ðeah ðæt hie oðerra monna ne reafien ; & on oðre wisan ða ungemodan, on oðre ða gemodan ; & on oðre wisan ða wrohtgeornan þe cease wyrceað, on oðre ða gesibsuman ; & on oðre wisan sint to manianne ða þe ða word ðære halgan æ ryhte ne ongietað, on oðre ða þe hie ryhtlice ongietað, & ðeah for eaðmodnesse wandiað ðæt hie hit ne sprecað ; & on oðre wisan ða þe fulfremede ne bioð nohwæðer ne on ieldo ne on wisdome, & ðeah for rædwilnesse to fóð, on oðre wisan ða þe medomlice & wel mægon læran, & him ðeah ondrædað for eaðmodnesse ðæt hie hit forðy forlætað; & on oðre wisan ða þe ðisse hwilendlican are wilniað, & him nan geswinc ne ðyncð ðæt hie hie hæbben, on oðre ða þe him ðyncð micel earfoðu & micel geswinc to habbanne, & hiera swæðeah wilniað; & on oðre wisan ða þe beoð mid sinscipe gebundene, on oðre ða þe bioð frio ðara benda ; & on oðre wisan ða þe ða ðurhtogenan synna wepað, on oðre ða þe ða geðohtan wepað; & on oðre wisan ða þe ða ærgedonan wepað, & ðeah ne forlætað, on oðre ða þe hie forlætað & swæðeah ne wepað; & on oðre wisan ða þe ða unalifendan ðing doð, & hie eac herigeað, on oðre
are too hasty ; in one way the humane, in another the cruel ; in one way the humble, in another the proud ; in one way the steadfast, in another the fickle and inconstant; in one way the over-greedy, in another the abstinent; in one way those who generously give away their own, in another those who strive for the property of others, and rob them; in one way those who neither rob other men nor gene- rously distribute their own, and in another those who generously dis- tribute their own and yet do not refrain from robbing other men; in one way the quarrelsome, in another the peaceful ; in one way the lovers of strife who breed dissensions, in another the peace-makers ; in one way are to be admonished those who do not rightly understand the words of the holy law, in another those who rightly understand
