A potacio[n] or dry[n]king for this holy time of le[n]t very co[m]fortable for all…A potacio[n] or dri[n]kynge for this holi time of le[n]t very co[m]fortable for all…

THEOPHILE. O good LORD, ¹how greatly are many deceived, which think that they fasts well, if they do only but abstain from a smoky piece of Bacon, or hard salted and powdered beef, though they eat the most delicious fishes that can be gotten, and infarse their bodies like belied Hy ⟨image 48⟩crites with all the sweet meats […] either Potecaries or any other can invent or imagine, yea & that so unmeasurably, that after they have once dined, they are provoked either to the pleasure of the body, or else like beasts of the belly fall straightways unto sleep, so that they are not able to serve God, nor themselves, nor yet any other, O detestable abomination.

THEOPHILE. O good LORD, ¹howe greatelye are manye deceyued, whiche thyncke that they fasts wel, yf they do onelye but abstayne from a smokye pece of Baconne, or harde salted and powdered befe, though they eate the mooste delicious fyshes that can be gotten, and infarse theyr bodies like belyed Hy ⟨image 48⟩crites with all the swete meates 〈…〉 eyther Potecaries or ony other cā inuēt or imagyne, yea & that so vn measurablye, that after they haue once dyned, they are prouoked eyther to the pleasure of the body, or elles lyke beastes of the bellye faull streyghtwayes vnto sleape, so that they are not able to serue God, nor themselues, nor yet onye other, O detestable abhominacion.

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