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Excerpt from Three Dialogues on Pulpit Eloquence
B Listen, then! I will repeat to you what I am able to remember. This was the text I have eaten ashes as it were bread (ps. Cii. How could you find a more ingenious text for Ash Wednesday9 He Showed how, according to this passage, ashes ought to be on this day the food Of our souls; then he interwove in his introduction, in the most ingenious way in the world, the story of Artemisia and the ashes Of her husband. His transition to the Ave Maria* was full of art. Then his division of his subject was happy; you Shall judge Of it. These ashes, he said.
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