Ignorants 

 praise good 

 endings, but 

 doubt, or 

 dispraise 

 their begin- 

 nings. 



WATER-WORKES. 



broad. Al the rest of the Course, for 

 two miles and a halfe in length, accord- 

 ing to my former proportion. 



When my Worke began, in the Eye of 

 the Countrey, to carry a shew of profit, 

 it pleased many (out of their courtesie) 

 to give it commendations, and to applaud 

 the Invention. 



The Joyner hearing the commenda- 

 tions to bee generall, and hee the Leveller 

 (which was (he thought) the cheefe 

 Agent in the Action) there grew a 

 brabble betwixt us. Hee began to insult 

 and arrogate as a Coadjutor, by reason 

 of his levelling, and desired hee might 

 bee signified a principall party to the 

 Invention. 



I bad him have patience, the Invention 

 was mine, together with the dignity : 

 and told him 

 soldiers would 



withal the ambition of 

 not indure society with 

 men of Mechanicall trades : I only im- 

 ploy'd his hand, and not his head. 



So having compounded the brabble 

 betweene us, I fell into the handes of 

 an udskilfull Carpenter, in planting my 

 commaunding Weare or Scluce, crosse the 

 maine River. 



88 Hee 



