SC - Turkeys in Tusser

[Christine A Seelye-King]

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.  :)
	Christianna
	(mka Christine Seelye-King)
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