Temple.
"_Tace is Latin for a Candle_" (Vol. i., p. 385.; Vol. ii., p.
45.).--Your correspondent H. B. C. states that the earliest use he has
met with of this phrase is in Dean Swift's _Polite Conversation_,
written, as appears by the preface, about 1731; but he will find, in
Dampier's _Voyages_, the same phrase in use in 1686, or perhaps earlier:
not having the work itself at hand, I cannot refer him to the passage,
but he will find it quoted in the _United Service Journal_ for 1837,
Part III. p. 11.