began to be an husbandman] It is not unlike but he used husbandry before as a sonne of Adam, Genesis 3:19. but all that was at an end, his husbandry was drowned in the flood; now in the new world he was as a new beginner, and so of those vines which (preserved by the Divine providence) he could meet with dispersed here and there, (as the earth brought them forth) with diligence and industry he planted a vineyard, and pressed the grapes to make drinke of them, which before (as some hold) were eaten only as they grew in clusters.