12. Lent, and their other pretended Fast∣days, and their Monks and Nuns that never eat Flesh, destroy all the Fish in the Rivers, without a possibility of being stock'd again, nay they hinder those of the very Ponds from coming to maturity or a competent growth.13. It occasions abundance of people to lose their time by Fishing i those Rivers, without almost catching any thing, because they wil have Fish, and can have no other but such.14. Lent occasions the loss of the Advan∣tage and Income of Eggs▪ which are good a that time, and they don't know what use to put them too, and after Lent they are either too Old or of no Value.15. It's a shame to humane nature, to see those Excesses which the poor Idolatrous Pa∣pists are guilty of, during the time of the Car∣naval, when they conceive they have a privi∣ledge to dishonour, violate, and degrade their nature, by all sorts of Infamy, Excess and Disorders, and by their Masquerades and changing the habit of their Sex, to make themselves amends for being condemned by their Priests to eat no Flesh during Lent, and when that is over, they believe themselves authoriz'd again to commit the like Riots at Easter, which is so much the more dangerous to the health of many people, that they ed slenderly before, in hopes of being sooner de∣livered from the Fire of Purgatory after their Death.16. Lent and other Fast-days which the Priests command them to observe on pain of
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