Manufactures.
These are the Accommodators general to unite Solid Bodies, and to make them to be con∣tinuous: Yea coin of gold and silver may be better spared in a Common-wealth than Nailes. For, Commerce may be managed without mony by exchance of Commodities, whereas hard bodies cannot be joyned together so fast, and fast so soon and soundly without the media∣tion of Nailes.
Such their service for Firmness and expedition, that Iron Nailes will fasten more in an hour than Wooden Pins in a day, because the latter must have their way made, whilst the former make way for themselves.
Indeed there is a fair House on London Bridge commonly called None-such, which is reported to be made without either Nailes or Pins with crooked Tennons fastened with wedges and other (as I may term them) circumferential devices. This, though it was no labour in vain▪ because at last attaining the intended end, yet was it no better than a vain labour according to the Rule in Logick frustra fit per plura quod fieri potest per pauciora. But seeing the owner of that House had his harmless humour therein, and paid dear, no doubt, to his Workmen for the same; There is no cause that I or any other should find fault therewith.