(a) Builth. 



The 

 richestCoun- 

 try breeds 

 the idlest 

 (therefore 

 the poorest) 

 people. 



WATER-WORKES. 



can witnesse my appearance : Though 

 happily not furnished with such glitter- 

 ing Garments as might light my way to 

 you : for, Scarlet of (a) Bilth (Welch 

 frizes other name) hath now little grace 

 amongst great ones : But the Hood makes 

 not the Fryar, nor a brave Coate a brave 

 man. 



Now be it knowne to your Lordship, 

 and to all men (with the helpe of my 

 Lord God, the Kings most excellent 

 Majesty, and you my deare Lorde:) I pur- 

 pose to raise a golden world (for common- 

 wealth) in the Golden-Vale in Hereford- 

 shire (being the pride of al that County) 

 bordering on Wales^ joyning to Ewyas 

 Lacy (from whence your Lordshipp is de- 

 scended) being the richest : yet (for want 

 of imployment) the plentifullest place (b) 

 of poore in the Kingdome, yeelding two 

 or three-hundred-folde : the number so 

 increasing (Idlenesse having gotten the 

 upper hand ;) if Trades bee not raised ; 

 beggery will carry such reputation in 

 my quarter of the country, as if it had the 

 whole to halves. Therefore (my honor- 

 able Lord) put not onely your hands, but 

 all your will and all your strength hereto, 

 30 praying 



