WATER-WORKES. 



time ; which often drowning doth force 

 them to forsake the soile. 



I would desire no better pastime then 

 the hunting of a Wante in a plaine Meade. 

 My br ailing-trench being close by the 

 maine River: my trench-royall lying on 

 the height of the ground: my servant 

 seeing her cast, if neare the trench-royall 

 hee commands water into a descending 

 trench; and doth force her on the face 

 of the ground with much submission, 

 praying her Clergie: her offence being 

 Burglary in breaking my stankes, although 

 she were the first meanes that occasioned 

 all these under-taking*^ yet I could not 

 bee drawne to yeeld her a pardon : had 

 she wrought in any other part of my 

 grounds, I had not taken it so grievously: 

 but, in spoyling my fundamental! parts, 

 with working cleane through my stankes^ 

 and forcing them, by the extremitie of 

 the water altogether doune, she was 

 uncapable of pardon. If he that hath 

 an over-shoote-Mill would enter into an 

 account with him-selfe, whether it were 

 more profitable for him Winter and 

 Summer to drowne grounds, or to grind 

 corne, it would put him to a pussle. 



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