[263]. In Johnson and Stevens’s edition by Isaac Reid, we have a long note upon this passage, in which a quotation is introduced from “The Treasury of Ancient and Modern Times,” in order to give an account of the Septenary divisions of Proclus. According to this Greek philosopher, the life of man is divided into seven ages, over each of which one of the seven planets was supposed to preside. “The First Age is called Infancy, containing the space of foure yeares. The Second Age continueth ten yeares, untile he attaine to the yeares of fourteene: this age is called Childhood.—The Third Age consisteth of eight yeares, being named by our auncients Adolescie, or Youth-hood; and it lasteth from fourteene, till two-and-twenty yeares be fully compleate. The Fourth Age paceth on, till a man have accomplished two and fortie yeares, and is tearmed Young Manhood.—The Fifth Age, named Mature Manhood, hath fifteene yeares of continuance, and therefore makes his progress so far as six and fifty yeares. Afterwards in adding twelve to fifty-six, you shall make up sixty-eight yeares, which reach to the end of the Sixth Age, and is called Old Age.—The Seaventh, and last of these seaven ages, is limited from Sixty-eight yeares, so far as four score and eight, being called weak, declining, and decrepite age. If any man chance to goe beyond this age (which is more admired than noted in many) you shall evidently perceive that he will returne to his first condition of Infancy againe.”
[264]. As You Like It, Act 2. Sc. 7.
[265]. In every Septenary, says Solon, man receives some sensible mutation; thus in the First is Dedentition, or falling of teeth;—in the Second, Pubescence;—in the Third, The Beard groweth;—in the Fourth, Strength prevails;—in the Fifth, Maturity of Issue;—in the Sixth, Moderation of Appetite;—in the Seventh, Prudence.
[266]. By the Civil Law Twenty-five.
[267]. Taylor’s Civil Law, 254.
[268]. Sir William Brown’s Vulgar Errors. Folio, 1686. p. 173.
[269]. It appears therefore that the Milk Teeth are divided into Eight Incisores—(The fore or cutting teeth) Four Cuspidati (Canine or Eye Teeth) and Eight Molares (or Grinders).
[270]. Richerand has clearly shewn that this change of voice depends upon the larynx undergoing an increase in capacity; he observes that in the male, at the time of puberty, the aperture of the glottis augments in the proportion of 5 to 10, in the course of twelve months; that its extent is in fact doubled both in length and breadth: that these changes are less strongly marked in woman, whose glottis only enlarges in the proportion of 5 to 7.—Elements of Physiology, translated from the French of A. Richerand, by Robert Kerrison, London, p. 438.
[271]. Quæst: Med: Leg.—Q. 6.
[272]. Adams on Hereditary Diseases. Haslam on Madness.