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The Daily Dispatch: February 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], Medical assistance to prisoners. (search)
e church that he made a vow to abstain from meat forever. A worthy example! We advise the general adoption of a similar vow, to last during the war. Those who make it are likely to keep it, which is the best part of a vow. St. Publius did not allow his monks wine, milk, cheese, grapes, or even vinegar. Pulse and herbs, coarse bread and water, were their only fare, except during the period from Easter to Whitsuntide, when they were permitted to grow merry over a gill of oil apiece. St. Martin lived on herbs boiled with a little vinegar for seasoning. Southey, in his "St. Romnald, " thus narrates a good man's self-denial: Then, sir, to see how he would mortify The flesh! If any one had dainty fare, Good man, he would come there And look at all the delicate things and cry, O, belly! belly! You would be gourmandizing now, I know; But it shall not be so! Home to your bread and water, home, I tell ye. Winwaloe, a Welch saint, kept his monks at starving point all