Henry Wootton.
"Microcosmography; or, a Piece of the World discovered; in Essays and Characters. By John Earle, D.D. of Christchurch and Merton College, Oxford and Bishop of Salisbury. A new edition, to which are add Notes and Appendix by Philip Bliss, Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford."
So Washbourne, in his Divine Poems, 12mo, 1654:--
"--ere 'tis accustom'd unto sin,
The mind white paper is, and will admit
of any lesson you will write in it."--P. 26.
Shakspeare, of a child, says--
"--the hand of time
Shall draw this brief into as huge a volume."--K. John, II I.
This, and every other passage throughout the volume, [included between brackets,] does not appear in the first edition of 1628.
Adam did not, to use the words of the old Geneva Bible, "make himself breeches," till he knew sin: the meaning of the passage in the text is merely that, as a child advances in age, he commonly proceeds in the knowledge and commission of vice and immorality.