The Duke of Muscovy was anciently obliged to pay this reverence to the Tartars, that when they sent an embassy to him he went out to meet them on foot, and presented them with a goblet of mares' milk (a beverage of greatest esteem amongst them), and if, in drinking, a drop fell by chance upon their horse's mane, he was bound to lick it off with his tongue.
Aitzinean, Moskuko dukeak zor zien tarterrei begirantza hau, enbaxadoreak igortzen zizkiotelarik, oinez joan behar zitzaiela eta eskaini behor-esne opor bat (ezinago atsegina zaien edaria), eta edatearekin, ttanttaren bat eror baledi haien zaldien biloen gainera, milikatu behar zuela.