Book 33 For fear it [water] choke up the pits […] they [the workman] deriue it by other drains.

He all the time begs their Mercy, like an Offender at a Whipping-Post, and beseeches their forbearance; but the more importunate he seems for their favourable usage, the severer Vapulation they are to exercise upon him […].

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