Wants will 

 not worke in 

 water, nor 

 where it 

 soakes. 



WATER-WORKES. 



otherwise, your trench beeing continually 

 full, you may (as I sayd) appoint your 

 servant with a boord to stay or stoppe the 

 trench; and so from place to place, drowne 

 your shelving or descending ground from 

 the beginning of your trench, to the end 

 thereof both daylye and hourely. 



This Topping or Bracing-trench ; hath 

 this excellencie with-all, that it running 

 continually in the trench, frees your 

 grounds from Moules or Wants : for they 

 will not worke in water. 



If they desire to fall into the midst 

 of your other Meades, they must under- 

 mine the Trench, swimme the Trench, or 

 some way shuffle over. 



If they do ; see their danger : they 

 being once found to worke in the belly 

 of your Mead, they bee subject to death, 

 by your commanding the water from your 

 two-foote-trench to descend on the rere- 

 ward ; the sodaine course whereof comes 

 so fast uppon them, and they wanting 

 foot-man shippe to rescue their lives, are 

 overtaken, to their utter overthrow. 



Suffer not one Moule, or Want to live 

 betweene your tivo-foote-trench and the 

 maine River, which is not far distant. 



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