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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…
A potacio[n] or dry[n]king for this holy time of le[n]t very co[m]fortable for all penitent sinners, newly prepared by Theodore Basil.A potacio[n] or dri[n]kynge for this holi time of le[n]t very co[m]fortable for all penitent synners, newly prepared by Theodore Basille.
printed for Joha, 1542printed for Ioha, 1542
Title page typeset from the transcription.
¶ The potation for Lent. › ¶ Of Fasting.¶ The potacion for Lente. › ¶ Of Fastynge.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
PHIL. We are not only commanded in our fasting to anoint our head & to wash our face, but also to fast, in secret.
PHIL. We are not only cōma•ded in oure fastyng to annoynt our head & to wash our face, but also to fast, in secret.
THEO What is it I pray you to fast in secret.
THEO What is it I praye you to faste in secret.
PHIL. Verily to fast in secret 1is not to keep you close from the sight of men, & so to abstain from your meats in privy corners, but not to hunt & hawk after vainglory nor praise of men for your fasting, nor to seek to be seen of men while ye fast, that they may commend & praise you. We are counted before God than to fast in secrete, when 2we fast with such a mind, that we would fast in deed, though no man living did see us, and when we regard more the accomplishment of God's will, & the subjection & ⟨image 57⟩taming of our body, than all the hu main glory that can be attributed unto us.
PHIL. Uerely to fast in secret 1is not to kepe you close frō ye sight of men, & so to abstayne from your meates in preuye corners, but not to hunt & hawke after vayneglory nor prayse of men for your fasting, nor to seke to be sene of men whyle ye fast, that they maye commend & prayse you. We are counted before God than to faste in secrete, whan