198 GREEN GEESE AND STUBBLE GEESE. 



stubble-goose comes in at Michaelmas. King, in his " Art 

 of Cookery," has — 



" So stubble-geese at Michaelmas are seen 

 Upon the spit ; next May produces green." 



In the old " Household Books," it is not unusual to find 

 such entries as the following : — 



" Itm, the xxvij daye to a s'vflt of 

 maister Becks in rewarde for bringing a 

 present of Grene Gees .... iiijs. viijd. 



A "green goose" is mentioned again in Love's Labour's 

 Lost, Act iv. Sc. 3. 



Launce, enumerating the various occasions on which he 

 had befriended his dog, says, — 



" I have stood on the pillory for geese he hath killed, 

 otherwise he had suffered for 't." — Two Gentlemen of 

 Verona, Act iv. Sc. 4. 



" Goose, if I had you upon Sarum plain, 

 I 'd drive you cackling home to Camelot.'' 



King Lear, Act ii. Sc. 2. 



There appears to be some difference of opinion as to 

 what place is meant by the ancient name Camelot. 

 Selden, in his notes to Drayton's " Polyolbion," says : — 

 "By South -Cadbury is that Camelot; a hill of a mile 

 compass at the top ; four trenches encircling it, and 

 betwixt every of them an earthen wall ; the contents of 



