WATER-WORKES. 



reane^ or slade, unlevelled, you shall finde 

 that forrow, reane^ or slade^ will receive 

 the most part of your water idely : which 

 otherwise would disperce over the whole; 

 and comber you with the care of new 

 plowing it to make it the more plainer 

 which will hinder you two or three yeares 

 at the least. Having made your weare or 

 scluce^ your Drowning-course or Trench^ 

 your ground levelled or plimmed, then 

 followes your attendance: in flood-times 

 see you suffer not your floud-water by 

 negligence to passe away into the brooke^ 

 river & sea; but by your sluce^ com- 

 maund it to your grounds ; and continue 

 it playing theron so long as it appeares 

 muddy : and finding the substance de- 

 caying (from a fat floud unto cleare 

 water) take upp your sluce or floud-gates^ 

 and suffer the cleare water to have his 

 course unto the maine brook or river again, 

 untill new or fresh flouds appeare ; and 

 still as it riseth muddy ^ imploy it on your 

 grounds during the winter- sea son. When 

 you have spent the winter in muddy -floods ^ 

 and your grounds seasoned by sucking the 

 substance of each fallow, and dung-hill : 

 I be sure, in the beginning of March, to 



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