WATER-WORKES. 



or both : but to helpe both ; I pray you 

 forgett not to runne this trench, topping 

 and braving your River, that in the Winter , 

 you drowne that with the rest. 



In Summer^ your commaund is more 

 absolute, it beeing shelving or descending 

 to your flatt-bottome-ground ; you may with 

 a boord of two foote broad, and one foote 

 deepe, stay that water, and suffer it to 

 play upon the face of the ground, halfe 

 a quarter of an houre, or little more, 

 untill it meete with your flatt bottome. 



And thus you may handle the braveing- 

 trenche^ by drowning the shelving ground 

 every morning in the heate of Summer^ 

 before and after mowing; so long as you 

 finde the Sunne forceable. 



^fo\ir Jlatt-bottom-ground, beeing, in the 

 heate of Summer, drownd, suffer the 

 water from your shelving or descending 

 Trenche^ but to kisse the hand or foote of 

 the same : for it beeing claye, and once 

 drowned, before mowing in the extreame 

 heate, it will not endure a second drown- 

 ing with-out danger : unlesse the heate 

 doe so extreamlye increase, that one ex- 

 tremitie must incounter another. 



So, you may fall to double drowning 

 102 (if 



