Note 26 — Chapter I · SUMMARY.
Reading edition
Meaning that they supped their porridge, broth, or whatever spoon-meat formed their earliest meal; tea and coffee being then unknown at royal breakfast tables in Christendom.
Reading edition
Meaning that they supped their porridge, broth, or whatever spoon-meat formed their earliest meal; tea and coffee being then unknown at royal breakfast tables in Christendom.