WATER-WORKES. 



they should be downe ; or some envious, 

 lewd, or malitious person, in the night- 

 time loose them downe of purpose to 

 harme me. 



No Subject in the Kingdome can 

 certainly say hee hath the like Groundes, 

 unlesse he daily drowne as I doe. And 

 for these thousand Acres I shall bee able 

 to Mowe them twice a yeare. 



If I please : The rush^ the Mosse, the 

 boult^ the hard head^ and many other un- 

 profitable wedes craves mercy at my 

 handes for their life in respect of their 

 former offences ; with protestation never 

 to trouble the ground againe. 



I doe not see why the cowslip should 

 have more favour then the rest, unlesse 

 it bee to countenance the May-pole. 



I have not done all I can doe, I can 

 Graze my mowing Meades, untill the 

 first of Male. I would see who can doe 

 the like, without the hazard of his Hay 

 that Sommer, unlesse hee follow my ex- 

 ample. It may bee sayd by some among 

 them-selves that you (neighbour) and I, 

 may doe the like : But then, that You, 

 and I must live by the Rivers of Leadon, 

 Dowbanke, Frommey, or in the Land of 

 127 Lombardy^ 



