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Adam's profession

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"There is a no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession," Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet. The bard also said "And Adam was a gardener" in Henry VI, Part III. Much later, Kipling wrote: "Oh Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees/That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees." The phrase Adam's profession was proverbial for gardening long before both poets lived. No one has called it "Eve's profession," even though she picked the first apple. See also fiacre.

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