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Markham on Gardiners
Jan. 13th, 2005 05:28 pmEnglish Husbandman, Chap. XV: The office of the Gardiner...
"There is to be required at the hands of every perfect Gardiner these especiall virtues, that is to say, Diligence, Industry, and Art: the two first, as namely, Diligence (under which word I comprehend his love, care and delight in the vertue hee professeth) and Industry (under which word I conclude his labour, paine, and study, which are the only testimonies of his perfection) hee must reape from Nature: for, if hee be not inclined, even from the strength of his blood to this love and labour, it is impossible he should ever prove an absolute gardiner: the latter, which containeth his skill, habit, and understanding in what he professeth, I doubt not but hee shall gather from the abstracts or rules which shall follow hereafter in this Treatise, so that where nature, and this worke, shall concurre in once subject, there is no doubt to be made, but the professor shall in all points, be able to discharge a sufficient dutie."
"There is to be required at the hands of every perfect Gardiner these especiall virtues, that is to say, Diligence, Industry, and Art: the two first, as namely, Diligence (under which word I comprehend his love, care and delight in the vertue hee professeth) and Industry (under which word I conclude his labour, paine, and study, which are the only testimonies of his perfection) hee must reape from Nature: for, if hee be not inclined, even from the strength of his blood to this love and labour, it is impossible he should ever prove an absolute gardiner: the latter, which containeth his skill, habit, and understanding in what he professeth, I doubt not but hee shall gather from the abstracts or rules which shall follow hereafter in this Treatise, so that where nature, and this worke, shall concurre in once subject, there is no doubt to be made, but the professor shall in all points, be able to discharge a sufficient dutie."
