about seven o’clock in the morning
The Dragon Court wore a holiday air , and there was no ring of hammers at the forges ; but the men who stood about were in holiday attire : and the brothers assumed their best clothes . Breakfast was not a meal much accounted of . It was reckoned effeminate to require more than two meals a day , though , just as in the verdurer 's lodge at home , there was a barrel of ale on tap with drinking horns beside it in the hall , and on a small round table in the window a loaf of bread , to which city luxury added a cheese , and a jug containing sack , with some silver cups beside it , and a pitcher of fair water . Master Headley , with his mother and daughter , was taking a morsel of these refections , standing , and in out-door garments , when the brothers appeared at about seven o'clock in the morning . `` Ha ! that 's well , '' quoth he , greeting them . `` No slugabeds , I see .