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SCENE I. A garden: the Gardener ''discovered at work amongst some shrubs and flowers. Enter Robert hastily, calling to him as he enters.''

TOP, stop, Gardener! What are you about there? My mistress's rose trees rooted out of her favourite nook thus! Get out of this spot with your cursed wheel-barrow! If there were one spark of a christian in your heart, you would pluck the last hair off your bare scalp rather than root out these shrubs.

Gar. Softly and civily, Master Robert; and answer me one question first.—If I intend to remain gardener in this family, and make my pot boil and my family thrive as I have done, whether will it be wiser in me, do you think, to obey your orders or my master's?