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  tr.  Palladius  		(Duke Humfrey)	 		(1896)	  i. 758 (MED)  				So hoot is no donge Of foul as of the dowue, a quyshte [c1450 Bodl. quysht; L. gloss. palumbe; L. palustrium] out take.
a1450    in  T. Austin  		(1888)	 8  				Take quystes an stoppe hem wyth-in wyth hole pepyr.
?a1475    Noble Bk. Cookry in   at Quiste  				To mak quystis, tak a pece of beef or of moton and wyne and water and boile it and..then stop the quistes within with whole peppur and cast them in a pot..and let it stewe welle..and put them in faire disches, one or ij in a dische, for a maner of potage, and when they be serued furthe, tak alitill brothe and put in the disches among the quystis and serue it.
1601    P. Holland tr.  Pliny  I. 342  				Coists or Stockdoues.
1611    R. Cotgrave   				Phavier, a Ringdoue, Queest, Coushot, Woodculuer.
1653    T. Urquhart tr.  F. Rabelais  xxvii. 174  				The hornes of a roe-buck..the feet of foure queest-doves.
1719    in  W. M. Middelton  		(1931)	 II. 410  				87 Partriges, 16 woodcokes, and 3 quists, at 3d a peice.
1772    G. White  12 Nov. 		(1970)	 v. 60  				The ring-dove, or queest,..breeds with us, & stays the whole year round.
1800     1 106  				The ring-dove or quiest.
1843     1 213  				Hiding himself in a barn, waiting for ‘queests’.
1870    M. Collins  II. iii. 35  				As pensive as a quoist.
1935    A. W. Boyd  		(1946)	  ii. 98  				A neighbour told me an old Cheshire rhyme which adequately imitates the ‘queest's’ song: ‘A pianet's a foo; A stick or two's enoo.’ A ‘pianet’ is a magpie, whose bulky domed nest the wood-pigeon is supposed to regard with scorn.
1974    W. Leeds  87  				Quist, Queest, a wood pigeon.