—Come, now, I will meet my accuser on fair ground, face to face. Read, fellow, in my Works and Days: mark the inspired prophecies there set forth: the doom foretold to the negligent, the success promised to him that labours aright and in due season. One basket shall suffice to store thy grain, And men shall not regard thee. Could there be a more timely warning, balanced as it is by the prospect of abundance held out to him that follows the true method of agriculture?