Signes 

 of well 

 seasoned 

 grounds. 



WATER-WORKES. 



heavens yeeld not more raine then is 

 necessary for a Common-wealth, you later- 

 mathes will proove unprofitable : where 

 drowning before mowing, will make good 

 a second mowing : and in walking over 

 grounds I will tread as on Velvet, or a 

 Turkey Carpet. 



This Drowning before Mowing, puts 

 wormes to execution, or forceth them to 

 flye from their habitation : for sure I am 

 that that ground will not bee troubled 

 with them untill they raise a new genera- 

 tion ; and that cannot well bee in those 

 grounds with-out great store of heate ? 

 which if it happen, to what end serves 

 your water, but to season the ground 

 againe. The Summer may bee so ex- 

 treamly hotte as the fervencie thereof 

 may force you to double or trebble 

 drowning ; yet I would wish all those 

 that have not the true understanding and 

 use of the water (before they put this in 

 execution) to enquire where any such 

 worke is ; and having found the place, 

 to observe the Weare that commands the 

 River, and to note the length of the 

 trench-royal I, and plimme thereof: what 

 stankes, lists, or trenches bee within the 



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