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…

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 ⟨image 49⟩thy money that thou owest, exercise not lawing & suing by the fast. &c. Thus have I declared unto you after the minds of the holy & an cient Doctors, what the true and christen fast is, whereby ye may also easily learn to know the popish & false fast. And because ye shall not doubt of this doctrine concerning fasting, know you, that the kings most royal majesty also in his Pro clamacion concerning eating of white meats this time of Lent, hath there no less prudently than godly, set forth the very same thing, that hitherto I have taught you. The words of the Proclamation are these: Let all men endeavour them selves to their possible powers ³with this liberty of eating of white meats to observe also that fast, which God most specially requireth of them, that is to say, that they renounce the world, & the devil, ⟨image 50⟩with all their pomps & works, & also to subdu & repress their carnal affections, & their corrupt works of the flesh, according to the vow & profession, made at the font stone. Howe say ye to these words.

PHIL. Undoutedly these men are farre from the true & christen man ner of fastynge, whiche is, not only ¹