pouncer-box

Updated: May 4, 2025

Here is a profane and drunken minstrel, called Allan-a-Dale 'nebulo quidam' who has menaced me with corporal punishment nay, with death itself, an I pay not down four hundred crowns of ransom, to the boot of all the treasure he hath already robbed me of gold chains and gymmal rings to an unknown value; besides what is broken and spoiled among their rude hands, such as my pouncer-box and silver crisping-tongs."

Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe