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Furthermore that the true intent is ¹away both of their fasting & prayers, it is evident: first by the multiplying ²of them, for when the Jews had lost the understanding of their sacrifices, and did believe in the work, then they were mad upon them, that well was he that could rob him self to offer most: in so much that the Prophets cried out against them, that their offerings stank in the nose of God. And ⟨p. 230⟩ours had so multiplied their fasting that they could no longer bear them. At the beginning they were tolerable for the vauntage: quia levis est labor cū l••ro. But when they had purchased enough and enough again, they became intolerable. And therefore all our Monks whose profession was never to eat flesh, set up the Pope, & took dispensations, both for that fast, and also for their strait rules, & made their strait rules as wide as the hoods of their cowls. And as for the hypocrisy ³of the fratry where they eat but invisible flesh, or that is interpret to be no flesh is spoken of in other places. An other proof is, that they so long a time have given pardons of the merits of their fasting, as though they had done more then enough for themselves, and of that merchandise have gotten all they have, and have brought the knowledge of Christs blood clean into darkness. And last of all, what shall I say of the open idolatry of innumerable fasts: of saint Brandon's fast, Saint Patrick's fast, of 4. holy Fridays, of Saint Antonies between Saint Mary's days, of our Lady fast, either vij. year the same day that her day falleth on in March, and then begin, or one year with bread and water, and all for what purposes, ye know well enough, and of such like, I trow ten thousand in the world. And who hath rebuked them?

Furthermore that the true entent is ¹away both of their fasting & prayers, it is euident: first by the multiplying ²