WATER-WORKES. 



was neyther privy to the contract, nor 

 the marriage. 



I desir'd but his oth for my satisfaction ; 

 hee badde mee have patience, it was not 

 his fashion to forsweare him-selfe. Thus 

 hoping I had beene quit of the cause, I 

 prayed recompence of the Offender ; But 

 within sixe months a new Commission 

 came downe ; and a new Office found 

 against mee : which manner of proceed- 

 ing (I thinke) was able to breede white 

 hay res in a Brittaines beard. 



INCE THE FIRST 

 Time I undertooke the 

 drowning of my groundes, 

 I (as carefully as I could) 

 sought to better my un- 

 derstanding by other mens 

 labours: yet in the whole 

 Kingdom I never found, nor heard of a 

 work worthy observation : Having so 

 many Rivers, Brooks, Fountaines andSprings ', 

 which run idely unto the Sea : without 

 Wear'e, Sluce, stay, stanke or dam, to turne 

 some part of them upon grounds that 

 need them, or to containe the substance 

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