WATER-WORKES. 



provision my owne estate will not affoord, 

 the neighbourhood can provide it, that 

 neither want nor scarsitie shall afflict any 

 of his Majesties servants and subjects. 



My good Lord, let it not seeme irk- 

 some to you, nor cloy your dainty eare, 

 that thus I belabour your attention with 

 repetition of these countrey-commodities, 

 and common-wealths Requisites ; so to 

 season your courtly pleasures, as sharpe 

 sawce doth sweete meates, but when you 

 bend your regarde to these things (as I 

 doubt not but you will : For active witte 

 in short time turnes to working wis- 

 dome :) The worlds observation will then 

 know, you waxe ripe for the highest im- 

 ployments : For it strongly argues youth is 

 then well mellowed, when it begins to 

 looke into these necessaries for mans life 

 with Ages eyes. Pleasures, that tickle 

 our sences, make us but spoile Pretious- 

 time ; while they betray our Reason, that 

 should rule rebellious affections that 

 ought to obey. The sooner these ene- 

 mies, to mans dignity, are shaken off 

 from the Minde, the sooner will the Minde 

 advance the Body to dignity. 



It is a glorious (how ever troublesome) 

 79 thing 



