XII. Hu se se þe gedafenlice & endebyrdlice to cymð, hu he ðæron drohtigean sciele.
Đæs biscepes weorc sculon bion ofer oðerra monna weorc swæ micle betran swæ hit micel bið betweox ðæs hierdes life & ðære heorde. Him gedafenað ðæt he geðence & geornlice smeage hu micel niedðearf him is ðæt he sie gebunden to ðære ryhtwisnesse mid ðy rape ðæt he ongiete for hwæs geðyncðum ðæt folc sie genemned heord. Hwat ðæm hierde [ðonne] wel geristð ðæt he sie healic on his weorcum, & his word sien nytwierðu, & on his swiggean he sie gesceadwis; him sculon eglan oðerra monna brocu swelce he efnswiðe him ðrowige; he sceal sorgian ymbe ealle & foreðencean; he sceal beon for eaðmodnesse hiera gefera ælces ðara þe wel do; he sceal beon strec wið þa þe ðær agyltað, & for ryhtwisnesse he sceal habban andan to hiera yfele ; & ðeah for ðara bisgunge ne sie his giemen no ðy læsse ymb þa gehiersuman ; ne eac for hiera lufan geornfulnesse ne forlæte he ða ungehiersuman. Ac ðis ðæt we nu feaum wordum arimdon we willað hwene rumedlicor heræfter areccean.
XIII. Hu se lareow sceal beon clæne on his mode.
Se reccere sceal bion simle clæne on his geðohte, ðæt[te nan] unclænnes hine ne besmite ðonne he ða ðenunga underfehð, forðæm ðæt he mæge adryggean of oðerra monna heortan ðæt ðæron fules sie. Hit is ðearf ðæt sio hond sio ær geclænsod be wille ðæt fenn of oðerre aðierran; gif sio ðonne bið eac fennegu, ðonne is wen ðæt hio
XII. How he who attains the dignity properly and regularly is to conduct himself therein.
The bishop's works must surpass other men's works as much as the shepherd's life is superior to that of the flock. It behoves him to think and carefully consider how very necessary it is for him to be bound to righteousness with the rope of understanding through whose dignity the people is called flock; it befits the shepherd to be lofty in works, profitable in words, and discreet in silence; he must grieve for the troubles of others as if he suffered equally with them; he must care and provide for all; through humility he must be the equal of all well-doers; he must be stern with sinners, and through
