Escobar, lui dit-on, mon père,
Nous la permet pour la santé.
“If Bourdaloue, a little too severe,
Cries, Fly from pleasure’s fatal fascination
Dear Father, cries another, Escoba,
Permits it as a healthy relaxation.”
[137]. Four celebrated casuists.
[138]. Hippocrass—a medicated wine.
[139]. All persons above the age of one-and-twenty are bound to observe the rules of the Roman Catholic fast during Lent. The obligation of fasting begins at midnight, just when the leading clock of every town strikes twelve. (Letters from Spain, p. 270.)
[140]. Ad insequendam amicam. (Tom. ii. tr. 27, part 2, c. 6, n. 143.) The accuracy with which the references are made to the writings of these casuists shows anything but a design to garble or misrepresent them.