tusser tells us that:- "In harvest time, harvest folk, servants and all, Should make all together, good cheer in the hall, And fill the black bowl, so blithe to their song, And let them be merry, all harvest time long."
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews
The word is used by tusser, Spenser, and Shakespeare.
"A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume I."
R. Dodsley
These are Gascoigne, Churchyard, Turberville, Googe, and tusser.
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury