WATER-WORKES. 



moisture having gotten the upper-hand, 

 the Sunne workes, out of that drunken- 

 dropsie ground, the Rush, and all other 

 ill pleasing stuffe, and unprofitable trash. 

 I said in the Spring, you must keepe your 

 grounds drye. If March follow his kinde, 

 and Aprill drye, overflowe it with Cleare- 

 water, that it receive no drought : for, 

 all men know, if the Spring bee drye in 

 May, it's two to one Haye never goes a 

 begging. 



Amongst other things, an olde Drunk- 

 ard once warned mee, I should not suffer 

 the roofe of my mouth to bee drye : yet 

 I never followed his example : I remem- 

 ber the cup was never from his mouth, 

 and hee in the end dyed of a dropsie : so, 

 in claye-ground, in the heate of Summer, 

 drowne it moderately: and, (it beeing 

 once sufficiently seasoned in May) you 

 need not drowne it untill a day, two or 

 three before you mowe. At which time 

 you provide for mowing, if sufficient 

 showers, have not quallified the drought of 

 your ground ; let downe your sluce into 

 your trench-royal I, that there-by you may 

 command so much water to serve your 

 turne as you desire. Which Trench- 

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