Parallel Passages

Under "Parallel Passages" (Vol. ii., p. 263.) there occur in two paragraphs—"*There is an acre sown with royal seed,*" concluding with "*living like gods, to die like men,*" from Jeremy Taylor's *Holy Dying*; and from Francis Beaumont— "*Here's an acre sown indeed* *With the richest royalest seed.* . . . . . . *Though gods they were, as men they died.*" Which of these twain borrowed the "royal seed" from the other, is a manner of little moment; but the correspondence of living as gods, and dying as men, both undoubtedly taken from Holy Scripture; the phrase occurring in either Testament: "I ha…