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LEWIS EVANS—ADDRESS I 
13. The silvered and gilt casket-shaped dial, which is of Italian 
make, and a very uncommon and perhaps unique type of dial, 
has several mottoes inscribed on the scrolls around the silver hoy 
figures, the hoys’ hands serving as gnomons for the five dials. 
On the east is: “A solis ortu usque ad meridiem intervalla 
ipsa diei aeque denuncio.” From sunrise till noon I announce at 
equal periods the divisions of the day. 
On the south : “ Yespere cum eis pariter et mane in eodem diei 
ostendere non deferam.” In the evening and the morning, like 
the others, I shall not delay to tell my tale. 
On the west: “ (A) meridie usque ad solis occasum itaque cum 
ilia gradior.” Like the last, my steps I take from noon to sunset. 
On the north: “ Expecto donee inveniat illuminatio mea, ut 
,cum aliis inservire valeam.” I await the coming of my light, that 
with the others I may be strong to serve. 
The motto on the horizontal dial upon the lid was lost when 
I bought the casket, so, on behalf of the boy figures, I have 
added: “ Opera manuum nostrarum dirige super nos” (Prosper 
thou the works of our hands upon us: Psalm xc, 17, Prayer- 
book version). 
This was a presentation instrument made at Naples in 1770. 
14. “ Fais ce que dois, advienne que pourra; 
L’heure est a Dieu, l’esperance a tons.” 
Do what thou oughtest, come what may ; 
The hour belongs to God, hope to all. 
The second line of this motto, as well as “ Adele Essex, 1896,” 
is round a sun-dial at Cassiobury, the letters being made of box 
on a double ring of gravel 30 feet in diameter. 
The pretty ivory dial which folds into the shape of a hook was 
made by Hans Troschel of Nuremberg about 1610, and has on it: 
15 . “ Hora fugit, mors venit.” 
Time passes, death advances. 
16 . “If o’er the dial glides a shade, redeem 
The time ; for, lo, it passes like a dream. 
But if’t is all a blank, then mark the loss 
Of hours unblest by shadows from the cross.” 
Written by the Bev. It. W. Essington, and inscribed on a dial 
in the form of a cross at Shenstone, near Lichfield, 1848. 
