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 1     I|      the end that they that had fasted the Friday, which should
 2     I|          which should always be fasted, were not grieved. And in
 3     I|        the Sundays which be not fasted. And after because the clergy
 4     I|       the time that Jesu Christ fasted, which was anon after his
 5     I|         the Holy Ghost. They be fasted also in September tofore
 6     I|    ensue the Jews. For the Jews fasted four times in the year,
 7     I|         the mount of Sinai, and fasted there forty days and forty
 8    II|       wood of Jabesh-Gilead and fasted seven days. ~Thus endeth
 9    II|      all the men of Israel, and fasted that day till even. And
10    II|         on her body a hair, had fasted all the days of her life
11    II|        old man. And when he had fasted five days, a voice came
12    II|      man, for like as thou hast fasted and made thyself lean, so
13    II|    saved. And so he did, for he fasted six months to bread and
14    II|       his hand. And the apostle fasted and prayed to God for him,
15    II|         He instituted for to be fasted Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday,
16    II|         earth, he was blind and fasted three days, and was smitten
17   III|        great abstinence that he fasted every day save the Sunday
18   III|         bring his flesh low, he fasted, he entended to wake by
19   III|        devotion to S. Peter and fasted alway his vigil; now it
20   III|       of S. Peter, which knight fasted also his even, and the priest
21   III|    barley bread with ashes, and fasted every day, and never ate
22   III|         third night when he had fasted and slept not. And with
23   III|   fifteen years unto fifty, she fasted every day save Sunday and
24    IV|      blessed Mary Magdalene and fasted her vigil, and honoured
25    IV|     after his barley bread, and fasted every day, and ate never
26    IV|       the heretics, and then he fasted and his fellow with him,
27    IV|  christian men that buried him, fasted three days and three nights,
28     V|      nurse. Which devout mother fasted twice in the week, and the
29     V|     twice also, when his mother fasted in the week, and would suck
30     V|      twelfth year of his age he fasted many and divers fastings
31     V|     Christ in desert because he fasted, and would assay if he had
32     V|         relic. And when she had fasted certain days she saw upon
33     V|        and the men of the city, fasted three days, and S. Michael
34    VI| herewith thrice in the week she fasted in this manner that she
35    VI|    sodden. Item, every year she fasted two lentens to bread and
36    VI|        second and third day she fasted, commending herself unto
37   VII|      entered into the ship they fasted forty days and lived devoutly,
38   VII|         humbly. When the others fasted from morn to evensong time,
39   VII|        he made, for when he had fasted the space of three days,
40   VII|         the three days which he fasted, he did do make a procession
41   VII|        he came to his death. He fasted eleven Lents and all the
42   VII|     holy church for to fast, he fasted with bread and water. And
43   VII|      eleven years aforesaid, he fasted three days in the week with
44   VII|        to change the colour. He fasted once by the space of seven
45   VII|         it, forty shillings. He fasted always the Friday, and namely