MONTAIGNE 53 



Among these goodly sights, I pray you, remember according to 

 your promise (for so the time requireth) to shew mee some part 

 of your great knowledge in Garden matters, sith you have upon 

 this condition heard me heretofore grabling, or rather wearying 

 you with the declaiming of my poore skill in the tilling of the 

 field. . . . 



Marius. Nature hath appointed remedies in a readinesse for 

 all diseases, but the craft and subtiltie of man, for gaine, hath 

 devised Apothecaries shops, in which a man's life is to be sold 

 and bought ; where for a little byle, they fetch their medicines 

 from Hierusalem, and out of Turkic, while in the meane time 

 every poore man hath the right remedies growing in his 

 Garden : for if men would make their Gardens their Phisitians, 

 the Phisitians craft would soone decay. You know what your 

 olde friend Cato saith, and what a deale of Phisicke he fetched 

 out of a poore Colwort. . . . 



Thrasybulus. Every thing liketh me passing well : Good Lord 

 what a pleasant ground, what a Paradise is this : methinks I see 

 the Orchards of Alcinous, the Trees are set Checkerwise, and so 

 catred, as looke which way you will, they lie levell : King Cyrus 

 himselfve never had better. If Lysander had ever scene this 

 Orchard, he would have wondred a great deal more than he 

 did at Cyrus his orchard. * The whole Art and Trade of 

 Husbandry* (Of Gardens, Orchards, and Woods], enlarged by 

 Barnaby Googe. 



TTUSBANDRY is otherwise a very Servile Employment, as MONTAIGNE 

 n Salust tells us though some parts of it are more excusable ( I 533- I 592). 

 than the rest, as the Care of Gardens, which Zenophon attributes to 

 Cyrus, and a mean may be found out betwixt Sordid and Homely 

 Affection, so full of perpetual Solitude, which is seen in Men 

 who make it their entire Business and Study, and that stupid 

 and extream Negligence, letting all things go at Random, we 

 see in others. { Of Solitude' 



