ole country。
I accepted the offer； and immediately found that they had been talking in terms of gardening； and that the kings and generals they had mentioned were only so many tulips； to which the gardeners； according to their usual custom； had given such high titles and appellations of honor。。 最好的txt下載網
鬱金香（4）
I was very much pleased and astonished at the glorious show of these gay vegetables； that arose in great profusion on all the banks about us。 Sometimes I considered every leaf as an elaborate piece of tissue； in which the threads and fibers were woven together into different configurations； which gave a different coloring to the light as it glanced on the several parts of the surface。 Sometimes I considered the whole bed of tulips； according to the notion of the greatest mathematician and philosopher that ever lived； as a multitude of optic instruments； designed for the separating light into all those various colors of which it is posed。
I was awakened out these my philosophical speculations； by observing the pany often seemed to laugh at me。 I accidentally praised a tulip as one of the finest ever saw； upon which they told me； it was a mon Fool’s Coat。 Upon that I praised another； which it seems was but another kind of Fool’s Coat。
I had the same fate with two or three more； for which reason I desired the owner of the garden to let me know which were the finest of the flower； for that I was so unskillful in the art； that I thought the most beautiful were the most valuable； and that those which had the gayest colours were the most beautiful。 The gentleman smiled at my ignorance。 He seemed a very plain honest man； and a person of good sense； had not his head been touched with that distemper which Hippocrates calls the Tulippo