"For eaters a table they brought and set * In the banquet-hall and 'twas dight with gold: Like th' Eternal Garden that gathers all * Man wants of meat and wines manifold."
And when the high-breasted maids had set all this before him, quoth she, "Thou soughtest to drink of our drink; so up and at our meat and drink!" He could hardly credit what his ears had heard and sat down at the table forthright; whereupon she bade her nurse[FN#312] give him a cup, that he might drink. Now her slave-girls were called, one Hub ú b, another Khut ú b and the third Suk ú b,[FN#313] and she who gave him the cup was Hubub. So he took the cup and looking at the outside there saw written these couplets,
"Drain not the howl but with lovely wight * Who loves thee and wine makes brighter bright. And 'ware her Sc
