handsel

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Aleman, Cervantes, Lesage, Defoe and Fielding were inspired to imitation, and today Lazarillo is acclaimed as the prototype of the picaresque novel, as a handsel of the arriving era of realism in European literature.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here is your handsel; your aunt will only have to bring you to-morrow night.'

From Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Sue, Eugène

Whereupon the porter, overjoyed, kissed the earth and thanked her, saying, 'By Allah, it was thou didst handsel me this day!

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by Payne, John

Salary is for sitting by the table, To do work, pay handsel, as per table!

From Truth and the Myth : Couplets quips by Narayanan, A. R.

Ye breed o' the chapman, ye're aye to handsel.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander