Parallel Passages

"*There is an acre sown with royal seed*, the copy of the greatest change from rich to naked, from cieled roofs to arched coffins, from *living like gods to die like men*."—Jeremy Taylor's *Holy Dying*, chap. i. sect. 1. p. 272. ed. Edin. "*Here's an acre sown* indeed *With* the richest *royalest seeds*, That the earth did e'er suck in, Since the first man dyed for sin: Here the bones of birth have cried, Though *gods they were, as men they died*." F. BEAUMONT