Singing Potatoes
Wednesday, 1 March 2006
A Timely Anecdote

A Parish in the west Country called Lent was by fortune set on fire: and by chance a good fellow passing by at the same time, and seeing it, asked the Parishes name: They answered, Lent: Lent (quoth he) I pray ye then in with Fridayes and Saterdayes to, that the fire may consume them altogether.

Wits Fittes and Fancies
(Anthony Copley, 1595)

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