Crossword-Solution: LENTS 5 letters, 23 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

The cities of Aleppo and Amida, which are often visited by the patriarch, contain some wealthy merchants and industrious mechanics, but the multitude derive their scanty sustenance from their daily labor: and poverty, as well as superstition, may impose their excessive fasts: five annual lents, during which both the clergy and laity abstain not only from flesh or eggs, but even from the taste of wine, of oil, and of fish.

They alone know that every vicissitude of the city’s condition is traceable to that source--its sadness, its merriment, its carnivals and its lents, its health and its disease, its prosperity and the hideous plagues which at distant intervals kill one in ten of the population.

The night following they go to the church, where they sleep unto the next morning; and at Easter they have the Resurrection, and after every of the Lents they eat flesh the next week following Friday, Saturday and all.

Quand tu voudras que le temps s'écoule pour toi, tire le fil: tes jours se passeront rapides ou lents selon que tu auras dévidé le peloton vite ou longuement.

And out of their Lents, they obserue truely the Wednesdayes and Fridayes throughout the yeere: and on the Saturday they doe eate flesh.