toothsomest

Updated: May 23, 2025

So he accosted them with the salutation, and they returned his greeting with civility and all honour and would have gone their several ways, but he stayed them, repeating these couplets, "Steer ye your steps to none but me * Who hath a mine of luxury: Old wine that shines with brightest blee * Made by the monk in monastery; And mutton-meat the toothsomest * And birds of all variety.

Anonymous - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05