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called nine day es- math : an excellent 

 Meade, and approved for such of all my 

 neighbours. I sold the herbage thereof 

 diverse yeares for five pound per Annum: 

 but within few yeares, after the flouds 

 plaid upon it, I solde the Hey for ten 

 pound yearely : and the latter or after- 

 math was richly worth five. I will graze 

 this Meade untill May : yet notwith- 

 standing the Hey will yeeld me ten 

 pound, and the after-math five. Now 

 having (I hope) profited the intelligent 

 Reader, thus far : al the favour I desire 

 at his hands, in lue therof, is this, That 

 I may have leave to give new names 

 unto mine old grounds^ without beeing 

 laught at in ordinaries by scarce ordinary 

 understanders. Some they must have ; 

 for, those they had by drowning are 

 covered with new earth. And with-all, 

 they bee inlarged above two hundred 

 Acres. I cannot call that the nine-daies- 

 math^ which now is above 30. (unlesse 

 I should forget my counting-craft) nor 

 that a Moore which is firme and pleasing 

 ground ; nor that the rushy-leasow, which 

 is reduc'd now unto a more fruitfull and 

 profitable plot, if the rush appeare there 

 134 againe, 



