QUIDAM.
[Cæsar de Missy, a learned Prussian divine, was born at Berlin, 1703. Having settled in England, he was appointed in 1762 to be one of the French chaplains to George III., and died 1773. His valuable library, which was sold by Baker and Leigh in 1778, consisted of many books enriched with his MS. notes, some of which were purchased for his Majesty's library, some for the British Museum, and some by Dr. Hunter, who also bought several of his manuscripts. A biographical account of De Missy will be found in Chalmers's Biographical Dictionary, under De Missy and a list of his works in Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica, art. Missy.]
F. Beaumont and Jeremy Taylor (Vol. ii., p. 263.).
—"An acre sown with royal seed," &c. Would M. W. kindly say where the passage in Beaumont is to be found?
C. P. E.
[The passage occurs in the poem entitled "On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey." See Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, vol. ii. p. 709. edit. 1840.]
"Carve out Dials."—
"——Carve out dials, quaintly, point by point,
Thereby to set the minutes, how they run,
How many make the Hour full, complete;