A historiated f featuring miles, roger bacon's servant, with a black pudding. ". . He was deceived, for having put one end in his mouth, he could neither get it out againe, nor bite it off, so that hee stamped out for helpe: his maister hearing him, came; and finding him in that manner, tooke hold of the other end of the pudding, and led him into the hall, and shewed him to all the schollers, saying: see here my good friends and fellow students what a devout man my servant miles is, he loveth not to break a fast day, witnesse this pudding, that his conscience will not let him swallow: i will have him to be an example to you all, then tyed hee him to a window by the end of the pudding where poore miles stood like a beare tyed by the nose to a stake, and indured many floutes and mockes. . " (p. 50). Date: 1904.
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