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(12) The pudding more religion had than he; Tho' he would eat it, it will not down you see, Then of hypocrisy pray all beware. Lest like disgrace be each dissembler’s share.

Miles all the while was jeered and sported with by all the scholars and town’s people, but after four hours penance, his master dissolved the charm, and released him; and he ever after kept the fasts, not so much out religion, as for fear that a worse trick should be put upon him.



Hen Friar Bacon flourished at Oxford a young gentleman, by his prodigality, having run out his estate and involved himself in debt, grew exceeding pensive melancholy, purposing to make himself away in order to put an end to his miseries  the scorns that were daily put upon him  his former companions, being also utterly  off by his friends; so walking by a wood side, full of sorrow, he met as he