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My lord rang a little silver bell, and a door behind us was opened "Wine, Giles!" cried my lord in a raised voice "Wine for Master Pory, Captain Percy, and oblets"

Giles, whom I had never seen before, advanced to the table, took the flagon, and went toward the door, which he had shut behind hiliure in black in the next roooblets My lord broke off in thewhich the tediousness of the Indians had caused us to ain?" he said "To honor this bout I use my most precious cups" Voice and old cup "--he held it up--"belonged to the Medici Master Pory, who is a raven maenads upon this side, and of the Bacchus and Ariadne upon this It is the work of none other than Benvenuto Cellini I pour for you, sir" He filled the gold cup with the ruby wine and set it before the Secretary, who eyed it with all the passion of a lover, and waited not for us, but raised it to his lips at once My lord took up the other cup "This glass," he continued, "as green as an eold, and shaped like a lily, was once aht it froala days I fill to you, sir" He poured the wine into the green and gold and twisted bauble and set it before entlemen," he said

"Faith, I have drunken already," quoth the Secretary, and proceeded to fill for hientlemen!" and he emptied half the measure

"Captain Percy does not drink," remarkedup the glass against the light, began to admire its beauty "The tint is wonderful," I said, "as lucent a green as the top of the coold, within and without, and the strange shape the tortured glass has been made to take I find it of a quite sinister beauty, my lord"

"It hath been much admired," said the nobleman addressed