"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,