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Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Fasting

Who can believe with common sense,
A bacon slice gives God offence;
Or, how a herring hath a charm
Almighty vengeance to disarm?
Wrapt up in majesty divine,
Does he regard on what we dine?
Swift.—Epigram from the French.