and with cruel deeds anger our Lord;
but they shall have their reward for this in the eternal punishments.
God giveth to us men manifold fruits,
which we are to enjoy as far as may be safe for us,
that the body may have shelter and food,
that we may not be ensnared by the pleasant lusts
which come from superfluity to all those
who spend their worldly life unwarily.
Let us turn our will to God,
and in all things honour our Creator
Who ever ruleth in Eternity. Amen.
XII.
IN CAPUT IEIUNII (ASH-WEDNESDAY).
This discourse belongeth to the seventh night before Lent.
In this week on "Wednesday, even as ye yourselves know,
is caput jejunii, that is in English, Head of the Lenten Fast.
"We eat on the Sundays at the third hour and in the evening,
because the Sunday is so holy
that the man is liable, if he will fast on that day,
to be excommunicated, if he does so through self-will;
neither may any one kneel on Sundays.
Nevertheless, we must both on Sundays
and on other days shun drunkenness and surfeiting,
according to what books teach us, and most especially in Lent.
Now there will not be forty days
