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 Nay, ſaid the Friar, you ſhall do penance for this; ſo taking hold of the end of the pudding, he led him out to the ſcholars, ſaying, ſee, here's a queaſy ſtomached fellow that would not touch a bit of bread today! When they ſaw him in this plight, they all fell heartily a laughing; but Friar Bacon, not ſo contented, led him to the College-gate, and by enchantment fixed the end of the pudding to the bar, he was made ſo faſt to it as if it had been by a cable-rope, and on his back were placed theſe lines.

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