moorish

Make heauen to frowne and euery fixed ſtarre

To ſucke vp poiſon from the Mooriſh Fens,

And poure it in this glorious Tyrants throat.

He recommended to me to plant a considerable part of a large moorish farm which I had purchased, and he made several calculations of the expence and profit: for he delighted in exercising his mind on the science of numbers.