There was a table used in the chamber or bower, which differed altogether from that used in the hall. It was named _myse_, _disc_ (from the Latin _discus_), and _beod_; all words which convey the idea of its being round--_beodas_ (in the plural) was the term applied to the scales of a balance. The Latin phrase, of the 127th Psalm, _in circuitu mensæ tuæ_, which was evidently understood by the Anglo-Saxon translators as referring to a round table, is translated by one, _on ymbhwyrfte mysan thine_, and by another, _in ymbhwyrfte beodes thines_. If we refer back to the preceding chapter, we shall see, in the subjects which appear to exhibit a small domestic party (see cuts No. 15, 19, and 24), that the table is round; and this was evidently the usual form given among the Anglo-Saxons to the table used in the chamber or private room. This form has been preserved as a favourite one in England down to a very recent period, as that of the parlour-table among the class of society most likely to retain Anglo-Saxon tastes and sentiments. In the pictures, the round table is generally represented as supported on three or four legs, though there are instances in which it was represented with one. In the latter case, the board of the table probably turned up on a hinge, as in our old parlour tea-tables; and in the former it was perhaps capable of being taken off the legs; for there is reason for believing that it was only laid out when wanted, and that, when no longer in use, it was put away on one side of the room or in a closet, in the smallest possible compass. [Illustration: _No. 31. A Lamp and Stand._]