deficient in his Ears, as to have no Ta&longs;te for <lb/>
Harmony: It may &longs;uffice if he does not build <lb/>
a private Man's Hou&longs;e upon the publick <lb/>
Ground, or upon another Man's: If he does <lb/>
not annoy the Neighbours, either by his Lights, <lb/>
his Spou s, his Gutters, his Drains, or by ob<lb/>
&longs;tructing their Pa&longs;&longs;age contrary to Law: If he <lb/>
knows the &longs;everal Winds that blows from the <lb/>
different Points of the Compa&longs;s, and their <lb/>
Names; in all which Sciences there is no Harm <lb/>
indeed in his being more expert; but Painting <lb/>
and Mathematicks are what he can no more be <lb/>
without, than a Poet can be without the <lb/>
Knowledge of Feet and Syllables; neither do <lb/>
I know whether it be enough for him to be only <lb/>
moderately tinctured with them. </s> <s>This I can &longs;ay of <lb/>
my&longs;elf, that I have often &longs;tarted in my Mind Ideas <lb/>
of Buildings, which have given me wonderful <lb/>
Delight: Wherein when I have come to re<lb/>
duce them into Lines, I have found in tho&longs;e <lb/>
very Parts which mo&longs;t plea&longs;ed me, many gro&longs;s <lb/>
Errors that required great Correction; and up<lb/>
on a &longs;econd Review of &longs;uch a Draught, and <lb/>
mea&longs;uring every Part by Numbers, I have been <lb/>
&longs;en&longs;ible and a&longs;hamed of my own Inaccuracy. <lb/>
</s> <s>La&longs;tly, when I have made my Draught into a <lb/>
Model, and then proceeded to examine the &longs;e<lb/>
veral Parts over again, I have &longs;ometimes found <lb/>
my&longs;elf mi&longs;taken, even in my Numbers. </s> <s>Not <lb/>
that I expected my Architect to be a <emph type="italics"/>Zeuxis<emph.end type="italics"/> in <lb/>
Painting, nor a <emph type="italics"/>Nicomachus<emph.end type="italics"/> at Numbers, nor an <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Archimedes<emph.end type="italics"/> in the Knowledge of Lines and <lb/>
Angles: It may &longs;erve his Purpo&longs;e if he is a <lb/>
thorough Ma&longs;ter of tho&longs;e Elements of Painting <lb/>
which I have wrote; and if he is skilled in &longs;o <lb/>
much practical Mathematicks, and in &longs;uch a <lb/>
Knowledge of mixed Lines, Angles and Num<lb/>
bers, as is nece&longs;&longs;ary for the Mea&longs;uring of <lb/>
Weights, Superficies and Solids, which Part of <lb/>
Geometry the <emph type="italics"/>Greeks<emph.end type="italics"/> call <emph type="italics"/>Podi&longs;mata<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>Em<lb/>
boda.<emph.end type="italics"/></s><s> With the&longs;e Arts, joined to Study and <lb/>
Application, the Architect may be &longs;ure to ob<lb/>
tain Favour and Riches, and to deliver his <lb/>
Name with Reputation down to Po&longs;terity.</s>

 <s>CHAP. XI.</s>

 <s><emph type="italics"/>To what Sort of Per&longs;ons the Architect ought to offer his Service.<emph.end type="italics"/></s>

 <s>There is one Thing that I mu&longs;t not <lb/>
omit here, which relates per&longs;onally to <lb/>
the Architect. </s> <s>It is, that you &longs;hould not im<lb/>
mediately run and offer your Service to every <lb/>
Man that gives out he is going to build; a <lb/>
Fault which the incon&longs;iderate and vain-glori<lb/>
ous are too apt to be guilty of. </s> <s>I know not <lb/>
whether you ought not to wait till you are <lb/>
more than once importuned to be concerned. <lb/>
</s> <s>Certainly they ought to repo&longs;e a free and vo<lb/>
luntary Confidence in you, that want to make <lb/>
u&longs;e of your Labours and Advice. </s> <s>Why &longs;hould <lb/>
I offer tho&longs;e Inventions which have co&longs;t me &longs;o <lb/>
much Study and Pains, to gain perhaps no <lb/>
other Recompence, but the Confidence of a <lb/>
few Per&longs;ons of no Ta&longs;te or Skill? </s> <s>If by my <lb/>
Advice in the Execution of your intended <lb/>
Work, I either &longs;ave you from an unnece&longs;&longs;ary <lb/>
Expence, or procure you &longs;ome great Conveni<lb/>
ence or Plea&longs;ure; &longs;urely &longs;uch a Service de<lb/>
&longs;erves a &longs;uitable Recompence. </s> <s>For this Rea<lb/>
&longs;on a prudent Man &longs;hould take care to main<lb/>
tain his Reputation; and certainly it is enough <lb/>
if you give hone&longs;t Advice, and correct Draughts <lb/>
to &longs;uch as apply them&longs;elves to you. </s> <s>If after<lb/>
wards you undertake to &longs;upervi&longs;e and com<lb/>
pleat the Work, you will find it very difficult <lb/>
to avoid being made an&longs;werable for all the <lb/>
Faults and Mi&longs;takes committed either by the <lb/>
Ignorance or Negligence of other Men: Upon <lb/>
which Account you mu&longs;t take care to have <lb/>
the A&longs;&longs;i&longs;tance of hone&longs;t, diligent, and &longs;evere <lb/>
Over&longs;eers to look after the Workmen under <lb/>
you. </s> <s>I would al&longs;o have you, if po&longs;&longs;ible, con<lb/>
cern your&longs;elf for none but Per&longs;ons of the highe&longs;t <lb/>
Rank and Quality, and tho&longs;e too &longs;uch as are <lb/>
truly Lovers of the&longs;e Arts: Becau&longs;e your Work <lb/>
lo&longs;es of its Dignity by being done for mean <lb/>
Per&longs;ons. </s> <s>Do you not &longs;ee what Weight the <lb/>
Authority of great Men is to advance the Re<lb/>
putation of tho&longs;e who are employed by them? <lb/>
</s> <s>And, indeed, I in&longs;i&longs;t the more upon this Piece <lb/>
of Advice, not only becau&longs;e the World has <lb/>
generally a higher Opinion of the Ta&longs;te and <lb/>
Judgment of great Men, than for the mo&longs;t <lb/>
Part they de&longs;erve, but al&longs;o becau&longs;e I would <lb/>
have the Architect always readily and plen<lb/>
tifully &longs;upplied with every thing that is ne<lb/>
ce&longs;&longs;ary for compleating his Edifice; which <lb/>
tho&longs;e of lower Degree are commonly not &longs;o <lb/>
able, and therefore not &longs;o willing to do: to <lb/>
which add, what we find very frequent In&longs;tances <lb/>
of, that where the De&longs;ign and Invention has <lb/>
been perfectly equal in two different Works,