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…

THEO. What is than to be done? How may we come by & get such penance that may set such a burning love in our hearts towards virtue, that for the very love of it, we may freely hate vice, & cease to do evil.

THEO. What is thā to be done? How maye we come by & get such penaūce that maye set such a brennynge loue in our hertes towardes vertu, that for the very loue of it, we maye frely hate vyce, & cease to do euell.

PHIL. It ¹is hard for a natural man which understandeth not those things y• pertain to the Spirit of God to do this of his own strength & power. For true Penance is the gift ²of God. Every good gift and every perfect gift cometh from above, descending from the father of light. S. Ambrose saith: Those are good ³tears, which wash away the fault. Moreover they, whom God beholdeth, lament their offence. Peter denied first, and he wept not. For the the LORD had not looked upon him. He denied the second time, & wept ⟨image 18⟩not. For the LORD did not yet look upon him. He denied the third time Jesus looked upon him, & he wept very bitterly. Let them read the Gospel, & see that the LORD Jesus ⁴was than within when he was heard of the high Priests, and that the Apostle Peter was without & beneath in the haul, sometime sitting, sometime standing at the fire with the servants, as it is declared with a very true & concordant telling of the Evangelists. In consideration ⁵whereof, it can not be said that the LORD did look on him with his cor porall eyes by admonishing him visibly. And therefore as concerning that which is written there, the LORD did look upon him, it was done inwardly, it was done in the mind, it was done in the will. The LORD did help him with his mercy secretly. He touched the heart. He called again the memory. He visited Peter