<s>Now touching this, I had the fortune to offer an admirable <lb/>
accident that we meet with when we come to the effect, which <lb/>
I verily believe will be an utter ruine to the Lake of <emph type="italics"/>Ve<lb/>
nice.<emph.end type="italics"/></s>

 <s>I &longs;ay therefore, that by diverting the&longs;e five Rivers that re<lb/>
main, although their water that they di&longs;charge for the pre&longs;ent in<lb/>
to the Lake is not all taken together 4/5 parts of what the <emph type="italics"/>Brent<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>
alone did carry, yet neverthele&longs;&longs;e the abatement of the water of <lb/>
the Lake which &longs;hall en&longs;ue upon this la&longs;t diver&longs;ion of four parts, <lb/>
which was the whole water, &longs;hall prove double to that which hath <lb/>
happened by the diver&longs;ion of <emph type="italics"/>Brent<emph.end type="italics"/> onely, although that the <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Brent<emph.end type="italics"/> alone carried five parts of that water, of which the Rivers <lb/>
that are to be diverted carry four: A wonder really great, and <lb/>
altogether unlikely; for the reducing all this Propo&longs;ition to be <lb/>
under&longs;tood, is as if we &longs;hould &longs;ay, that there being given us <lb/>
three Rivers, of which the fir&longs;t di&longs;chargeth five parts, the &longs;econd <lb/>
three, and the third one, and that from the diver&longs;ion of the <lb/>
fir&longs;t, there did follow &longs;uch a certain abatement or fall; from <lb/>
the taking away of the &longs;econd there ought to follow al&longs;o &longs;o <lb/>
much more abatement; And la&longs;tly, from the withdrawing of <lb/>
the third the water ought to fall &longs;o much more, which is wholly <lb/>
impo&longs;&longs;ible: And yet it is mo&longs;t certain, and be&longs;ides the demon<lb/>
&longs;tration that per&longs;wades me to it, which I &longs;hall explain in due <lb/>
time, I can &longs;et before your eyes &longs;uch an experiment as is not to <lb/>
be denied by any one, although ob&longs;tinate: and I will make it <lb/>
plainly &longs;een and felt, that by taking away only four parts of the <lb/>
five, which &longs;hall have been taken away, the abatement proveth <lb/>
double to the abatement en&longs;uing upon the diverting fir&longs;t of the <lb/>
five onely; which thing being true, as mo&longs;t certainly it is, it <lb/>
will give us to under&longs;tand how pernicious this diver&longs;ion of five <lb/>
Rivers is like to prove, if it &longs;hall be put in execution.</s>

 <s>By this little that I have hinted, and the much that I could <lb/>
&longs;ay, let your Highne&longs;&longs;e gather with what circum&longs;pection this bu<lb/>
&longs;ine&longs;&longs;e ought to be managed, and with how great skill he ought <lb/>
to be furni&longs;hed who would behave him&longs;elf well in the&longs;e difficult <lb/>
affairs.</s>

 <s>I have not at this time explained the demon&longs;tration, nor have <lb/>
I &longs;o much as propounded the way to make the Experiment, that <lb/>
I am able to make in confirmation of what I have &longs;aid, that &longs;o <lb/>
by &longs;ome one or others mi&longs;-apprehending the Demon&longs;tration, <lb/>
and maiming the Experiment, the truth may not happen to &longs;hine <lb/>
with le&longs;&longs;e clarity than it doth, when all mi&longs;ts of difficulty are re<lb/>
moved: and if &longs;o be, no account &longs;hould be made of the Rea&longs;ons <lb/>
by me alledged, and that men &longs;hould &longs;hut their eyes again&longs;t the <lb/>
Experiments that without co&longs;t or charge may be made, I do de