This I mince 

 thus for ill- 

 digesting 

 stomacks. 



A just ex- 

 cuse. 



WATER-WORKES. 



LORD) they may say the Clothier; the 

 habitation for Artificers^ the Chappell^ and 

 Preacher , Curate^ Almes-house ; My Table 

 for the benefit of poore Artificers^ and 

 whatsoever else is good (yea a Common- 

 good] is out of ambition. 



I hope (my good Lord) I shall heare 

 no more of such Objections ; if I doe, 

 though I am no Poet yet I can make 

 Ballads, To the tune of up-tayls-all : For 

 He lash them Ifayth with Rimes that 

 shall make it rancle where they fall. 



But to take away the wonder of the 

 World, and to give satis-faction to the 

 envious-unsatisfied. 



I can keepe three hundred Kine, three 

 hundred young Cattell, three thousand 

 Sheepe, all these Winter and Sommer : 

 Having besides ten Plough -Land, all 

 hard at hand ; foure Milles as neare, and 

 within two mile of the place Tymber 

 sufficient for all my Buildings. And 

 Fire-wood ynough for all the Artificers, 

 the Inholder and the rest ; Wall-stone, 

 Tyle, Lime and Bricke, as necessary as 

 any man living. 



My good LORD, I doe not thus In- 

 ventory my Estate, and paint forth the 

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