SC - Turkeys in Tusser

[Magdalena]

Christine A Seelye-King wrote:

> Magdalena  writes:
> > _Not_ to stir up the discussion again...
> >
> > Thomas Tusser _500 Good Points of Husbandry_ (1571)
> > From May's Husbandry
> >
> > Grass, thistle, and mustard-seed, hemlock and bur,
> > tine, mallow, and nettle, that keep such a stur;
> > With peacock and turkey, that nibble off top,
> > are very ill neighbors, to seely poor hop.
>
>         Anyone care to guess at what that last line means?  I have heard my last
> name used in conjunction with fairies before, (and maybe even in the same
> breath as turkey...) but not in relation to ill neighbors.  :)

Dunno what seely means (no OED nearby) but in context the paragraph is talking about
things that shouldn't be allowed in the hop-yard.  A hop-yard is the garden with
poles and wires for training hop vines.

- -Magdalena