Well, I'll carry home my bottle of hay, and for once make my father's horse turn Puritan, and observe fasting-days, for he gets not a bit.

Come, let us teach each other's tears to flow, Like fasting bards, in fellowship of woe, When the coy Muse puts on coquettish airs, Nor deigns one line to their voracious prayers!

Shew me how feasting foes or friends Can for your fasting make amends.

Conceived by a fasting monk in the grip of delirium, these scenes were unfolded in the uneven style of a tortured soul.

None of my privileges to be infringed by thee, Florimel, under the penalty of a month of fasting nights.

Fasting we do not practise voluntarily, nor would we easily accept evidence from an Englishman as to the veracity of voluntary fasting visions, like those of Cotton Mather.