Cura Pastoralis: Transcription Lines 13-16

ðone wis dom. Forðæm ðewe noldon toðæm spore mid ure mode ón lu
tan ; ðaicða ðis eall gemunde . ðawundrade ic swiðe swiðe . ðara gode
na wiotona. ðe giu wæron giond angel cynn . ond ða bec eallæ befullan
ðone wisdom, for-ðæm-ðe we noldon to ðæm spore mid ure mode ón-lu-
tan. Ða ic ða ðis eall gemunde, ða wundrade ic swiðe swiðe ðara gode-
na wiotona ðe giu wæron giond Angel-cynn ond ða bec eallæ be fullan
the wisdom, because we were not willing to get down to the spoor wholeheartedly.
Then when I called this to mind, then I wondered very greatly at the good
scholars who once existed throughout the English people, and [had] totally [learned] all those books
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