The complete works of John Gower, volume 4

by John Gower

Hic bonus est pastor, hii sed ouile vorant:

Hii pleno stomacho laudant ieiunia Cristi;

Mollibus induti, nudus et ipse pedes:

Et que plus poterunt sibi fercula lauta parari,[352]

Ad festum Bachi dant holocausta quasi.28*

Esca placens ventri, &c. as 29 ff.

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As follows in TH₂,

**Cap^m. i.

Sunt clerus, miles, cultor, tres trina gerentes;[353]