Note 293 — GAMMER GURTON'S NEEDLE.
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Poultry. So in Fitzherbert's "Boke of Husbandry": "Gyve thy poleyn—meate in the morning," &c. Again, in "Your five Gallants," by Middleton: "And to see how pitifully the pullen will looke, it makes me after relent, and turne my anger into a quick fire to roast them."