WATER-WORKES. 



You must alwayes keepe your grounds in 

 a true temper ; they must never be too 

 wet in the Winter, but when you drowne; 

 nor too drye in the Summer, having 

 water enough. I had almost forgotten 

 this ; before you raise your stankes, bee 

 sure to cleare your grounds from Moles 

 or Wantes, they bee dangerous creatures 

 (like a Usurer that's hardly gotten out of 

 a mans land, wherein hee hath gotten 

 footing,) if they have possession in a 

 stanke. 



You know when all other grounds be 

 drownd some part of the stanke will bee 

 free ; they will not faile to rend and 

 teare your stanke like Rabbets in a sandy 

 soile. I protest two or three Wants in 

 my stanke-royall, was out of my waye 

 twenty pound a yeare, for many yeares. 

 I put a fumbling fellowe to attend their 

 walkes, who (not beeing cunning enough 

 to destroy them) utterly plagued me ; 

 until I hapned upon a good worke-man, 

 who hath cleared my stankes & my brav- 

 ing -trench. And were it not for my 

 braving-trench and my stankes, I should 

 never need the use of a Want - killer ; 

 because I do so oft drowne in Winter- 



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time ; 



Moles are 

 mischievous 

 vermin in or 

 about such 

 water-works. 



