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The Emperor Charles V 299 Pholo : Alinari. INTERIOR OF ST. PETER'S, ROME, SHOWING THE HIGH ALTAR that he had not brought a better supply of these from the Low Countries. On an eel-pasty he particularly doted." ... 1 In 1554 Charles had obtained a bull from Pope Julius III granting him a dispensation from fasting, and allowing him to break his fast early in the morning even when he was to take the sacrament. Eating and doctoring ! it was a return to elemental things. He 1 Prescott's Appendix to Robertson's Hisiory of Charles V.