WATER-WORKES. 



the Userers or Brokers cheek : your Lord- 

 ship shall have many of the Nobility (out 

 of their honorable zeale to publike profit) 

 commend my Common-wealth , yet if any 

 of them (like Puritans] turn with zeale to 

 lend me money to so good a purpose, the 

 heavens fore-fend that I should quench 

 it; no, it is good to bee zealous in a good 

 matter. 



Thus having tyred your Lordships 

 attention I thought to have made an end ; 

 but my love to you exceeding the ordinary 

 love of men, drawes me on to trouble 

 you further for your (a) ease. 



Once I heard your Fathers name (bee- 

 ing my Lord and Maister) ill spoken off 

 by a world of people, and two other great 

 Earles, three Knights, and divers Genie- 

 men, ill spoken off by the inhabitants 

 from Tentarne to Courtydee, on both 

 sides Wye threescore miles a head ; I 

 beeing a Servant, the Cause stood so 

 strong with the Country, I could by no 

 meanes devise how to make a quarrel 

 to defend my Lords Honour. I little 

 thought I should have beene in place to 

 have heard so many ill speakers, and so 

 few defenders, against so many honour- 

 49 able 



(a) Strange 

 Paradoxe yet 

 true if a 

 mans in- 

 crease of 

 estate tends 

 to his ease. 



