WATER-WORKES. 



and ten Acres^ by reason of the mowing, 

 making, and cariage, before the ground 

 were free to drowne, the extremitie of 

 the heate was so great, that the grasse 

 turned yellow ; being tainted, as a sheepe 

 on a drye rotte : or, as a man inlye sick, 

 and newly recovered faules into a relaps 

 againe. 



In this manner my grounds had gotten 

 the greem-skknesse or a burning-fearer 

 (I know not well whether) If in the ex- 

 treame heate you would drowne with 

 Judgement, you should not drowne in 

 the heate of the day : but in the night 

 from sunne to sunne. But being forc'd, I 

 suffered the water to worke night and 

 day ; the season of the yeare falling out 

 to bee dry : the sunne extreamly hotte ; 

 the ground hott, dry, and hard : so what 

 betweene the heate of the sunne, and 

 heate of the ground, the water became 

 luke-warme, and faild to effect that good 

 which by Nature other-wise it would 

 have done. 



And if I be not deceived, the infection 

 of the earthy had poysoned the 'water: or 

 made it so sick, as it was not able to 

 endure the ground. As a scudding shewer 



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