What you 

 must do 

 when you 

 purpose to 

 turne them 

 to Grasse. 



WATER-WORKES. 



fully fall to eating of Hay and Drinking 

 of water immediately. 



Let your servants be very carefull to 

 litter them with cleane Straw dayly, and 

 keepe them sweete with good Hay : and 

 let them never want cleare water. If 

 you have good scope of House-roome 

 lett them run and play their fils : When 

 you purpose to turne them to grasse, 

 keepe them in the House uppon Hay 

 and Water untill Mid-may : If you turne 

 them out (as the most do) in Aprill, you 

 undoe them : the nights being cold, the 

 grounds cold, the grasse weake and raw : 

 they never acquainted with the ayre, 

 will mislike with your unkinde dealing : 

 in token whereof the heyre will turne ; 

 and their bellies loose, scowre, or gilly, 

 that they never will be themselves : be- 

 cause the Sun hath not wrought suffi- 

 ciently with heate to comfort the ground 

 that should feed and comfort them. 



When they have beene some month 

 in your best Meads in Mid-may, and after 

 recovered their strength : put them into 

 some higher Groundes where there is 

 Grasse, water, and shadow ynough : Lett 

 them rest there untill Bartholomew: then 

 148 put 



