WATER-WORKES. 



in the countrey you best like off; & I 

 assure you, you shall find more Land to 

 be sold utterly neglected (while the water 

 runnes at wast) then a thousand such 

 young Gentlemen I speake off, will buy. 



I do advise all men that wil be Under- 

 takers in this Husbandry, to bee perfect in 

 the true Survey of the number of Acres 

 that may be drowned ; and that they make 

 choyce (as neare as they can) of errable 

 land : which commonly exceedes not two 

 or three shillinges an Acre yearly. Old 

 Pasture covered with mosse, that nature 

 hath forsaken, and Medow-ground (if there 

 bee any) that takes more pride in the com- 

 pany of the Cowslipp, then the gilt-cupp 

 which carrieth the garland from the rest. 



And for your comfort, (bee this spoken) 

 if in the laying out of five hundred pound, 

 at the end of foure yeares, you make it 

 not two or three thousand pound, your 

 choyce is bad, and lucke worse. During 

 those forty yeares you cannot receive lesse 

 then the rate you buy it att ; which is 

 twenty yeares purchase, or as you can 

 agree : And so from five hundred to a 

 thousand, two, three, or as much as your 

 estate will stretch too ; the more the better. 

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