Of Marcus, Cato, Columel, and Varro;
As if that there you had the grouth and age
Of a Palmeto, to improve each page:
And with so great an art and industry,
As if you’d studied nought but Husbandry.
When of your Vegetives you make relation,
You rather make than speak of a Plantation,
Your leaves affording shape, taste, and delight
To th’ Sense, the fruit gives to the Appetite.
If Pythagorean Doctrine were Divine,