such extraordinary beauty: and you know that a company of women without men is as melancholy as a company of men without women.” To this he added several other pleasant things, to prove what he said, and did not forget the Bagdad proverb, “That the table is not completely furnished, except there be four in company:” and so concluded, that since they were but three, they wanted another.
The ladies fell a laughing at the porter’s
such extraordinary beauty: and you know that a company of women without men is as melancholy as a company of men without women.” To this he added several other pleasant things, to prove what he said, and did not forget the Bagdad proverb, “That the table is not completely furnished, except there be four in company:” and so concluded, that since they were but three, they wanted another.
The ladies fell a laughing at the porter’s
