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 :— 
“ Itrh, the xxvij daye to a s’vnt of 
maister Becks in rewarde for bringing a 
present of Grene Gees .... iiijs. viijd. 
A “ green goose ” is mentioned again in Loves 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 
