The Beggers 

 good hus- 

 bandry of 

 my countrey. 



WATER-WORKES. 



ing & stouking the bound-sheaves, the 

 sheaves lying on the ground like dead 

 carcases in an over-throwne battell, they 

 following the spoyle not like souldiers 

 (which scorne to rifle) but like theeves 

 desirous to steale ; so this army holdes 

 pillaging Wheate, Rye, Barley, Pease and 

 Gates : Gates, a graine which never grew 

 in Canaan^ nor flLgypt^ and altogether out 

 of the allowance of Leazing. 



Under coulour of the last graine, Gates, 

 it being the latest harvest, they doe, with- 

 out mercy in hotte bloud steale, robbe 

 Orchards, Gardens, Hop-yards and Crab- 

 trees : so what with leazing and stealing, 

 they doe poorely maintaine them-selves 

 November, December, and almost all Jan- 

 uary, with some healps from the neigh- 

 bourhood. 



Thusyour Lordship sees (before God and 

 the world) the principall meanes of their 

 maintenance. The last three moneths, 

 February, March, and Aprill, little labour 

 serves their turne : they hope by the heate 

 of the Sunne, (seasoning them-selves like 

 Sna&esunder headges) to recover the month 

 of May with much poverty, long-fasting, 

 and little-praying : and so make an end 

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