"Hippocras" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was seated near a table covered with a shaggy cloth ornamented with gold, and with all the requisites for a dainty carouse. Flagons of wine, various drinking glasses, bottles of the hippocras, flasks full of good wine of Cyprus, pretty boxes full of spices, roast peacocks, green sauces, little salt hams—all that would gladden the eyes of the gallant if he had not ...
— Droll Stories, Complete - Collected From The Abbeys Of Touraine • Honore de Balzac |
