Brewer's: Gardener

(g hard). Get on, gardener! Get on, you slow and clumsy coachman. The allusion is to a man who is both gardener and coachman.

From you blue sky above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife [Adam and Eve] Smile at the claims of long descent.

Lady Clara Vere de Vere

Thou, old Adam's likeness, Get to dress this garden.

Shakespeare: Richard II., III. 4.

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