WATER-WORKES. 



I know many men that have Mills, 

 who for a desire to gaine a peck of come 

 a daye (and many dayes failes to get any) 

 so that by a true computation, in the 

 whole yeare, the Mill may bee worth 

 some foure or five pound : and in drown- 

 ing, foure or five acres of barren ground, 

 I will raise a farre greater benefitt. 



But because he wil give reputation 

 unto his demeasnes, or information on 

 the marriage of his sonne, that hee hath 

 such a Mill; hee had rather suffer muddy 

 Flouds in the Winter, and cleare Waters 

 in Sommer to breake their limbs on his 

 Mill wheeles, then exercise his wits (by 

 Drowning) to attaine a world of wealth. 



It is grone to a kinde of proverbiall 

 speech, in the Golden-Vaile, that hee that 

 doth drowne is a good Husband : hee that 

 may and wil not, is figured out with the 

 sillable, Fu. 



I know, I have as good an Over-shot- 

 mill for Water ynough as this Kingdome 

 yeeldes : yet rather then I would grinde 

 my owne Corne at a floud-time, or in my 

 drowning times in Sommer, I would 

 carry it tenne mile off to be ground, 

 though the Miller told the one halfe. 



141 Beeing 



Drowning 

 more pro- 

 fitable then 

 Mills. 



