The art of fair building represented in the figures of several uprights of houses, with their ground-plots, fitting for persons of several qualities : wherein is divided each room and office according to their most convenient occasion, with their heights, depths, lengths, and breadths according to proportion : with rules and directions for the placing of the doors, vvindows, chimnies, beds, stairs, and other conveniencies ... : also a description of the names and proportions of the members belonging to the framing of the timber-work, with directions and examples for the placing of them / by Pierre Le Muet ... ; published in English by Robert Pricke ...

The fair Ordering or Comeliness consisteth in the Symmetry or equal Proportion, which must be taken according to the breadth or height.

According to the largeness it is fit that the parts equally distant from the middle be equal between themselves.

That the parts be proportionable to the whole, and amongst themselves.

According to the height, it is fit that the parts, in which a Symmetry shall be observed in respect of their breadth or largeness, may be also of the same Perpendicular in their height. For it may happen, that one part of equal proportion in bredth, may not be also in height: For example, the half-crosses or meetings of Pillars, the which you may place in an equal distance from the middle of the Building; ne∣vertheless the Frontlets which shall be put upon them, shall not reach to the height of those of the whole crosses: so also that which shall be equally proportioned in bredth, shall not be also in height, therefore such works are to be avoided.