1 His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well.
2 "They should drink of the same cup," answered the Knight.
3 Sit thee down, then, and fill thy cup; let us drink, sing, and be merry.
4 If you go or come, eat or drink, bless or ban, 'Pax vobiscum' carries you through it all.
5 He also brought forth two large drinking cups, made out of the horn of the urus, and hooped with silver.
6 Beside each person of rank was placed a goblet of silver; the lower board was accommodated with large drinking horns.
7 O, it is a rich abbey-stede, and they do live upon the fat, and drink the sweet wines upon the lees, these good fathers of Jorvaulx.
8 Sir Sluggish Knight, I drink to thee," said the hermit; "respecting thy valour much, but deeming wondrous slightly of thy discretion.
9 In my judgment, you are fitter to keep a castle or a fort, eating of the fat and drinking of the strong, than to live here upon pulse and water, or even upon the charity of the keeper.
10 And I," said the Templar, filling his goblet, "drink wassail to the fair Rowena; for since her namesake introduced the word into England, has never been one more worthy of such a tribute.