Note 1524 — TURKEYS.
William Johnston translation
Pennant quotes the following rhyme from Tusser’s Five Hundred Points of Husbandry:—
Beefe, mutton and porke, shred pies of the best, Pig, veale, goose and capon and turkie well drest; Cheese, apples and nuts, jolie carols to heare, As then in the countrie, is counted good cheare.
These lines he places in the year 1585, in which the edition he quotes was printed; but as there was an edition in 1557, a question arises whether they are to be found there also. [They are not there.—Ed.]