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

the Alchimists, who have most vexed that body, do write wonders;

so as one affirmeth, That it is harder to destroy Gold than to