The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts. (Philip Sidney)

The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.

Philip Sidney

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