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power) able to doe. I acquainted them 

 with my purpose : the one (being a 

 Gentleman of worth and good nature) 

 gave mee leave to plant the one end of 

 my Weare on his side the River : the 

 other (my Tenant) beeing very aged and 

 simple) (by no persuasion I could use) 

 would yeeld his consent : aledging it 

 would marre his ground : yea, some-times 

 his Apple-trees : and men tolde him water 

 would raise the RusA, and kill his Cow- 

 slipps, which was the cheefest Flower 

 that his Daughters had, (beeing many) to 

 tricke the May-pole withall. All which 

 with silence I past over for a time, know- 

 ing his simplicity to exceed his discre- 

 tion ; yet in the end I re-enforc'd my 

 persuations, and tolde him (next unto 

 the King) I was to bee obeyed in matters 

 reasonable : and that it became him not 

 to provoke his Land-lord ; nor to stand 

 at the staffes end with his Commander. 

 Yet these Buggs-words would not moove 

 him. Then gave I a fresh charge, and 

 to draw him on with a Baite which hee 

 would soone bite at, tould him I had a 

 Meddow-plott in his neighbourhood, worth 

 forty pound, which I would part with on 

 85 reasonable 



