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Adam's Profession
Gardening, agriculture. Adam was appointed by God to dress the
garden of Eden, and to keep it (Gen. ii. 15); and after the fall he was sent
out of the garden “to till the ground” (Gen. iii. 23).
“There is no ancient gentlemen, but gardeners, ditchers,
and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.”
—The Clown in Hamlet,
v. 1.
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