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 Hers. 



WATER-WORKES. 



being dispersed ; drowne your ground 

 with cleare water : or mudd (if a floud 

 happen) the ground being bare, two 

 Blessings incounter each other, and puri- 

 fie the place where the Cow-shores were 

 falne : so, at the next turning in of your 

 Kine, some fortnight after, they shall 

 finde nothing to distemper or offend the 

 taste : the water doth cleanse and cleare 

 all annoyance to the beast, and breeds 

 perfect life in every growing grasse. 

 This last Summer 1604. in Trinity terme, 

 being above at London, I came not downe 

 till after Mid-summer: having grazed my 

 mowing Meades too too long after May. 

 Upon my returne, I enquired in what 

 state my grounds stood, my servants an- 

 swered they were sufEcientlye seasoned ; 

 but (in deed) they did (as many servants 

 doe) report the best of the worst, to ex- 

 cuse their negligence : the Meades were 

 not so sufficiently drownd, as the neces- 

 sitie thereof required : They being ne- 

 glected before mowing, not trying their 

 temper with a riding-rod^ (my beliefe was 

 so great in those greater Liers) but after 

 mowing, the truth appeared, the quantity 

 of Meade (in one place) being three score 

 136 and 



