"No man can by caretaking (as the Scripture saith) add a cubit to his stature.">[ See Matt. vi. 27.
Essay XXX. Of Regimen of Health.—See Antith., No. 4. vol. viii. p. 355.
Essay XXXI. Of Suspicion.—See Antith., No. 45. vol. viii. p. 377.
Essay XXXII. Of Discourse.—
"I knew two noblemen of the west part of England," &c.] Query, Who are the noblemen referred to?
Essay XXXIII. Of Plantations.—
"When the world was young it begat more children; but now it is old it begets fewer.">[ This idea is taken from the ancients. Thus Lucretius:
"Sed quia finem aliquam pariendi debet habere,
Destitit, ut mulier spatio defessa vetusto."
V. 823-4.