Mythology

rion, by R. Thorius (1651), the following passages occur: Cast wood upon the fire, thy loyns gird round With warmer clothes, and let the tosts abound In close array, embattled on the hearth, So again: And tell their hard adventures by the fire, While their friends hear, and hear, and more desire, And all the time the crackling chesnuts roast, And each man hath his cup, and each his toast. From these passages it is apparent that the saying, Who gives a toast? is synonymous with Whose turn is it to take up his cup and propose a health? It was the practice to put toast into ale with nutmeg and sugar. Evidently the toast as we know it to-day began in this prac tice, and a good toaster was described with accuracy so far back as 1684 in The New Help to Discourse.

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