Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched [corn], and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid [them] on asses.
Ver. 18. Then Abigail made haste.] As if she had had wings, and "wind in her wings," as Zec 5:9 for she well knew the danger of delays in such a case.
And took two hundred loaves.] A very large present, to expiate her husband's illiberal refusal: whereunto she added great store of good words to make amends for his harsh language. And herein she was more happy than that English lady, De Breuse, who had by her virulent and railing tongue more exasperated the fury of King John, than could be pacified by her strange present of four hundred cattle and one bull - all milk white, except only the ears, which were red - sent unto the queen.