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.
This is Friar Bacon's man who vow'd to faſt;
But, diſſembling, thus it took at laſt:
The pudding more religion had than he;
Tho' he would eat it, it will not down you ſee.
Then of hypocriſy pray all beware,
Left like diſgrace be each diſſembler's ſhare.
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.
