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…

EVSE. Howe much also are they deceived of the true manner of fasting, which do not only fast after such sort, as ye have now spoken, but also do no rysh in their hearts all kind of ma lice against their christen brothers seeking how they may destroy them & shed their blood, yea neither do they cease to pollute and defile the most blessed name of God, so much as lieth in them, with most abominable oaths, and are also in all their conversation wicked livers, ⟨image 49⟩as I may add nothing thereto.

EVSE. Howe much also are they deceiued of the true māner of fasting, which do not only fast after such sorte, as ye haue nowe spokē, but also do no rysh in theyr hertes all kynd of ma lyce agaynst theyr christē brothers sekyng howe they may destroy thē & shed theyr bloude, yea neyther do they cease to pollute and defyle the moost blessed name of God, so much as lyeth in them, wyth moost abho minable oothes, and are also in all theyr conuersacion wicked lyuers, ⟨image 49⟩as I maye adde nothynge therto.

PHIL. Undoubtedly these men are far from the true & christen man ner of fasting, which is, not only ¹to abstain from meats, but also from since. Against those thundereth the holy Doctor Basilius ma gnus on this manner: Woe be unto you ye drunkards, not with wine only. For wrath & indignation is all so a certain drunkenness of the soul making it even as wine doth heartless & foolish. For although thou eatest no ²flesh, saith he yet nevertheless dost thou eat thy brother. Thou tarriest from thy meat till it be night, yet all the whole day dost thou consume in suit & going to the law. But think not that the goodness of fasting is only in the abstinence of meats. For the true fast is the eschewing of evils. When thou fastest, loosen all wicked bonds, disquiet not thy neighbour, pay