so fit as Metalls, as Copper, Silver, but above all Gold; for

they are first useful, which doth increase it; they may be

divided into as little parts as you will, and then returned into

a greater mass: they are susceptible of any form, mark or

impression to be made and fit to conceive it; they are of an

exceeding long indurance against the Injuries of time or

accident, they are hardly subject to any natural corruption,

especially Gold, of the continuitie and incorruptableness whereof