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With sheep and shaggy goats the porkers bled, / And the proud steer was on the marble spread; / With fire prepared, they deal the morsels round, / Wine rosy bright the brimming goblets crown'd. / Disposed apart, Ulysses shares the treat; / A trivet table and ignobler seat, / The Prince assigns -- / - Odyssey, Book 21
The Prior Aymer had taken the opportunity afforded him, of changing his riding robe for one of yet more costly materials, over which he wore a cope curiously embroidered. Besides the massive golden signet ring, which marked his ecclesiastical dignity, his fingers, though contrary to the canon, were loaded with precious gems; his sandals were of the finest leather which was imported from Spain; his beard trimmed to as small dimensions as his order would possibly permit, and his shaven crown concealed by a scarlet cap richly embroidered.