Yet their sentiments of disgust and abhorrence, and even their fears, were for a time suspended by their curiosity.

Their eyes were fixed on the king, who, without the slightest change of countenance, swallowed the morsels as fast as they could be supplied by the knight who carved them.
"Every man then poked other; They said, 'This is the devil's brother, That slays our men, and thus hem eats!' "Their attention was then involuntarily fixed on the smoking heads before them.

They traced in the swollen and distorted features the resemblance of a friend or near relation, and received from the fatal scroll which accompanied each dish the sad assurance that this resemblance was not imaginary.

They sat in torpid silence, anticipating their own fate in that of their countrymen; while their ferocious entertainer, with fury in his eyes, but with courtesy on his lips, insulted them by frequent invitations to merriment.

At length this first course was removed, and its place supplied by venison, cranes, and other dainties, accompanied by the richest wines.