The P R E FA C E, 



eye and favour of his mafter, and above 

 that ill ufage with which they commonly 

 meet. 



I remember to have read fomewhere, 

 in the v/orks of Collumellay one of the moft 

 knov/ing husbandmen among the antients, 

 a paragraph to the following effed. 



" It is our own fault ((ays he) that the 

 " bufincfs of agriculture happens (o ill as 

 " often it does, becaufe we generally com- 

 " mit the care of our aftairs to fomc very 

 " bad fervants, regarding, and I may add 

 " often ufins him, however skilful or un- 

 " skilful, knowing or unknowing he is in 

 " his employ, as if he were a butcher or a 

 " hangman;" for in both thefe fenfes I 

 think the word carnijex is ufed. Let me 

 put it down in CoUumella's own words, as 

 near as I can remember them, having not 

 the book by me, " Fitio noflro cignciilUira 

 " male cedtt^ qm rem mfikam pejfimo cut- 

 " que fervorum veht carnijici, nox^e dedi- 

 " mns. And certain it is from experience, 

 that too many mafters have no more re- 

 gard for a good Gardiner than they have 

 perhaps for a dog-boy ; at bed, he muft 

 be fubjed to the ill treatment of any reign- 

 ing parafite, or thofe that get their living 

 by tales or tale-bearing, and often by fome- 



thing 



