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Gardener (g hard)

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

Gardener. Adam is so called by Tennyson.

“From yon 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. 6.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.