It is manly to 

 erre, beastly 

 to continue 

 in error. 



WATER-WORKES. 



in favour of your Fathers favorites. If 

 a Commission of Shewres happen amongst 

 us (by Gods visitation) then I hope you 

 will most earnestly beseech his Majestic, 

 that his Supersidias knock not out the 

 braines of the Commission of Salmon-fish- 

 ing. The fore-said Supersidias hath alwayes 

 beene our utter over-throw. My good 

 Lord, compare all the Rivers in the King- 

 dome together ; and you shall see and 

 heare by all antiquitie, the River of Wye^ 

 did exceede all other for Salmon. These 

 Weares your three fore-mentioned Lord- 

 ships, with the rest doe owe. They doe 

 you and them but the least service ; they 

 bring some fewe of your Salmons in season 

 toyour Table: and a hundred thousand bee 

 served unseasonably. In my memory, it 

 hath bred an inbred murmure amongst us, 

 which hath made the most so melancholy, 

 as I thinke the braines of many be not 

 setled in their true situation. They con- 

 fesse their error, and report their mis- 

 taking : first, to bee from a worthy old 

 Gentlemen, Maister Philip Jones, who 

 out of a blind zeale (like Papists that 

 goe on pilgrimage) yet wanting the true 

 length of the three Lords legges, (but 

 54 held 



