Thus I saw a gardener sell a gentleman a large yellow auricula, that is to say, a _running away_, for a curious flower, and take a great price.

It seems, the gentleman was a lover of a good yellow; and it is known, that when nature in the auricula is exhausted, and has spent her strengh in showing a fine flower, perhaps some years upon the same root, she faints at last, and then turns into a yellow, which yellow shall be bright and pleasant the first year, and look very well to one that knows nothing of it, though another year it turns pale, and at length almost white.

This the gardeners call a _run flower_, and this they put upon the gentleman for a rarity, only because he discovered at his coming that he knew nothing of the matter.

The same gardener sold another person a root of white painted thyme for the right _Marum Syriacum;_ and thus they do every day.
A person goes into a brickmaker's field to view his clamp, and buy a load of bricks; he resolves to see them loaded, because he would have good ones; but not understanding the goods, and seeing the workmen loading them where they were hard and well burnt, but looked white and grey, which, to be sure, were the best of the bricks, and which perhaps they would not have done if he had not been there to look at them, they supposing he understood which were the best; but he, in the abundance of his ignorance, finds fault with them, because they were not a good colour, and did not look red; the brickmaker's men took the hint immediately, and telling the buyer they would give him red bricks to oblige him, turned their hands from the grey hard well-burnt bricks to the soft _sammel_[9] half-burnt bricks, which they were glad to dispose of, and which nobody that had understood them would have taken off their hands.
I mention these lower things, because I would suit my writing to the understanding of the meanest people, and speak of frauds used in the most ordinary trades; but it is the like in almost all the goods a tradesman can deal in.

If you go to Warwickshire to buy cheese, you demand the cheese 'of the first make,' because that is the best.