WATER-WORKES. 



royall running on the plimme or levell, 

 suffer it to discend, where you meane 

 first to mowe, and you shall finde this 

 manner of drowning in the morning of 

 your mowing so profitable and good, that 

 commonly you gaine ten or twelve dayes 

 advantage in growing : for, drowning 

 before mowing a day, two, or three, so 

 supples the ground that it doth most 

 sweetly release the roote of every par- 

 ticuler grasse, although the Sunne bee 

 never so extreame hotter otherwise, if 

 you drowne not before you mowe : you 

 mow one day, you ted an other, you 

 spend one in gathering it into winde- 

 cockes: and with-all, stand upon the un- 

 certainty of the weather, whether you 

 dare adventer to breake your cockes or no. 

 Beeing broken, they must have a drying- 

 time before they can bee put into greater 

 cockes; and then opening them againe 

 into the last and greatest, by tedding^ 

 gathering^ cocking^ recocking^ and treble-cock- 

 ing^ your haye continuing above a weeke 

 on the ground ; the ground being bare, 

 and induring the heate of the Sunne at 

 Mid-summer (in the hottest time) it doth 

 so drye and parch the ground, that if the 

 99 heavens 



How profit- 

 able to 

 drowne a 

 little before 

 mowing. 



