WATER-WORKES. 



T^Herefore, now nothing remaines 

 * more to be said ; but to intreat thee 

 (friendly Reader) to beare with my merry- 

 sorry Stile, if therin any where I have not 

 observed a precise scholler-like Decorum : 

 for Mars his University (wherein some- 

 time I have bene matriculated, and pro- 

 ceeded to some degrees of command, 

 according to my study and time spent 

 therein) affoords no rules of speaking in 

 Print, yet Soldiers (in their Element) best 

 speake in Print : and can expresse what 

 else lies in the compasse of their spacious 

 conceits, like men of Wit, Arte, and Courage; 

 which they that speake altogether by the 

 Booke, oft faile to performe. But how- 

 soever, as this Worke, now finished, is 

 published for thy profit, and exprest in 

 such manner as I thought would yeeld 

 thee most p/easure : so thou wilt accept it 

 kindly, and thereby give me cause to be 

 ever studious of thy benefit. 



Principally, though lastly, I am humbly 

 to intreate you (my good Lord of Pem- 

 brooke] tolooke on myplainenesse, and winke 

 at my boldness* : the first, proceeding from 

 my Nature, the last, from my 'Education: 

 150 Yet, 



