_"Caput Apri Refero_ _Resonens laudes domino._ The boris hed In hondis I brynge with garlondis gay & byrdis syngynge: I pray you all helpe me to synge, _Qui estis in convinio_. "The boris hede, I understonde, ys cheffe seruyce in all this londe: wher-so-ever it may be fonde, _Scruitur cum sinapio_. "The boris hede, I dare well say, anon after the xijth day he taketh his leve and goth a-way. _Exiuit tunc de patria._" An olden Christmas feast wherein the wild boar forms the pièce de résistance is also figured in King's "Art of Cookery," the only English work except "The Philosopher's Banquet," by "W. B.," that has discoursed on gastronomy to any considerable extent in verse: "At Christmas time be careful of your fame; See the old tenant's table be the same. Then if you would send up the brawner's head, Sweet rosemary and bays around it spread! His foaming tusks let some large pippin grace, Or midst those thund'ring spears an orange place, Sauce like himself, offensive to its foes, The roguish mustard, dang'rous to the nose. Sack and the well spiced Hippocras the wine, Wassail the bowl with ancient ribbands fine, Porridge with plumbs, and turkeys with the chine." The seventeenth century was prolific of cook-books, most of which continued to republish the ancient recipes, with but slight augmentations or changes. Many of the old-fashioned dishes still appear in "The Art of Cookery Refined and Augmented," a treatise published in 1654 by Joseph Cooper, former kitchener of Charles I. These indigestibilities abound in "The English Housewife" of Gervaise Markham, an early production of the century, which reached its eighth edition in 1675, "much augmented, purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the general good of this Nation."[16]