Note 186:A — Chapter VI · (continued 2)
Reading edition
Tusser Redivivus, p. 104. In the first edition of Tusser, 1557, this stanza is as follows:—
"Then welcome thy harvest folke, serveauntes and all: with mirth and good chere, let them furnish the hall. The harvest lorde nightly, must give thee a song: fill him then the blacke boll, or els he hath wrong."
Reprint by Sir Egerton Brydges, p. 19.