"Even as you may see in coppice-woods; if you leave your staddles too thick, you shall never have clean underwood, but shrubs and bushes."] The same illustration is used by Lord Bacon, in {166} his _History of Henry VII._: "Like to coppice-woods, that, if you leave in them staddles too thick, they will run to bushes and briars, and have little clean underwood" (vol. iii. p. 236., ed. Montagu). The word _staddle_ means an uncut tree in a coppice, left to grow. Thus Tusser says, "Leave growing for staddles the likest and best." See Richardson in v., and Nares' _Glossary_ in _Staddle_, where other meanings of the word are explained. "The device of King Henry VII."] See Lord Bacon's _History_, ib. p. 234. "Nay, it seemeth at this instant they [the Spaniards] are sensible of this want of natives; as by the Pragmatical Sanction, now published, appeareth."] To what law does Lord Bacon allude? "Romulus, after his death (as they report or feign), sent a present to the Romans, that above all they should intend arms, and then they should prove the greatest empire of the world."] See Livy, i. 16., where Romulus is described as giving this message to Proculus Julius. A similar message is reported in Plut. _Rom._ 28. "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. "Consider likewise, what commodities the soil where the plantation is doth naturally yield, that they may some way help to defray the charge of the plantation; so it be not, as was said, to the untimely prejudice of the main business, _as it hath fared with tobacco in Virginia_."] On the excessive cultivation of tobacco by the early colonists of Virginia, see Grahame's _History of North America_, vol. i. p. 67. King James's objection to tobacco is well known. "But _moil_ not too much underground."] This old word, for _to toil, to labour_, has now become provincial. "In _marish_ and unwholesome grounds."] _Marish_ is here used in its original sense, as the adjective of _mere_. Spenser and Milton use it as a substantive; whence the word _marsh_. "It is the guiltiness of blood of many _commiserable_ persons."] No instance of the word _commiserable_ is cited in the Dictionaries from any other writer than Bacon. Essay XXXIV. Of Riches.--See _Antith._, No. 6. vol. viii. p. 356. "In sudore vultûs alieni."] Gen. iii. 19.