WATER-WORKES. 



an eye to her Millers true dealing. I prayed 

 her to put over that service to some servant 

 of hers : for of all trades I had least con- 

 fidence in their truth : and therefore re- 

 quired the more paines to be taken in 

 watching their water, & looking to their 

 fingers, which I was loth to undertake: 

 not-with-standing,(upon better considera- 

 tion, least shee should have held me care- 

 lesse of her good, and so ill deserve her 

 love) I obeyed her will, as many doe, and 

 many miseries do ensew thereby : So, in the 

 month of March, falling (with the streame) 

 to the milne-ward within my Meade (with 

 no desire (I protest) to fashion or forme 

 Husbandry] I happened to finde a Mole 

 or Wants nest, raised on the brim of the 

 Brooke, like a great hillocke; from which 

 nest or hillocke, there issued a little streame 

 of water, (drawne by the working of the 

 Wante (downe a shelving or descending 

 ground, one pase broad, and some twenty 

 in length. 



The running of which little Streame, 

 did, (at that time) wonderfully content 

 mee, seeing it pleasing Greene ; and that 

 other on both sides full of Mosse, and 

 Hide-bound for want of water. This 

 83 was 



The first 

 cause that 

 the work was 

 undertaken. 



