WATER-WORKES. 



If you finde difficulty in my discourse; 

 any Easter or Michell-masse Tearme you 

 shall finde me in the house of a true 

 Brittaine (maister Wotton a Scrivener) in 

 Fleet-street^ over against Saint Dunstans 

 Church. And for a Supper, at John 

 Gents you shall have your Belly-full of 

 Water-workes. For my Drownings, my 

 name hath beene so scandalliz'd in open 

 Ordinary, by a Westerne Gentleman, who, 

 since the Kings Majesties comming, is 

 become a Knight of account, but rash 

 censure deserves little reckoning in mine 

 account : Many men spake diversly of 

 my labours for a long time, because the 

 Honourable Courts (as they thought) 

 had brought mee to Beggers-bay : and 

 failing in the true execution of my wor&es, 

 in not placing a Planke of foure inches 

 thicke, and twenty inches broad, under 

 the maine Syll, to prevent the water from 

 undermining the same, and withall fay- 

 ling to lay my Groundes (by the indiscre- 

 tion of my Servants) levell or plaine, and 

 not understanding of what strength my 

 Stanks should be to with-stand the weight 

 of the Water that playes against them, 

 & what alowance to give each Stanke in 

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