io The Dance of Death.

restored. On their recovery they tell the priest that hewill not long survive :

For to thy long home sone shalt thou wende,All they ryse that yche tyde,But Ave she lay dede besyde.

Her father dies soon afterwards. The emperor causesAve's arm to be put into a vessel and suspended in thechurch as an example to the spectators. The rest of theparty, although separated, travelled about, but alwaysdancing; and as they had been inseparable before, theywere now not permitted to remain together. Four ofthem went hopping to Rome, their clothes undergoingno change, and their hair and nails not continuing togrow.

Bruning the Bysshope of Seynt Tolous,

Wrote thys tale so merveylous ;

Setthe was hys name of more renoun,

Men called him the Pope Leon ;

Thys at the courte of Rome they wyte,

And yn the kronykeles hyt ys write ;

Yn many stedys 23 beyounde the see,

More than ys yn thys cuntre :

Tharfor men seye an weyl ys trowed,

The nere the cherche the further fro God,

So fare men here by thys tale,

Some holde it but a trotevale, 24

Yn other stedys hyt ys ful dere,

And for grete merveyle they wyl hyt here.

In the French copies the story is said to have beentaken from the itinerary of St. Clement. The name ofthe girl who lost her arm is Marcent, and her brother'sJohn. 23

23 Places. u A falsehood.

25 Whoever may be desirous of inspecting other authorities for thestory, may consult Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum Historiale, lib. xxv.cap. io ; Krantz, Saxonia, lib. iv.; Trithemii Chron. Monast. Hirsaugi-ensis; Chronicon Engelhusii ap. Leibnitz. Script. Brunsvicens. II. 1082;Chronicon. S. yEgidii, ap. Leibnitz, hi. 582; Cantipranus de apibus;& Caesarius Heisterbach. de Miraculis ; in whose works several veraciousand amusing stories of other instances of divine vengeance against danc-ing in general may be found. The most entertaining of all the dancingstories is that of the friar and the boy, as it occurs among the popularpenny histories, of which, in one edition at least, it is undoubtedly thevery best.

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And Virgil has

Pars ped:

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Notwithstandagainst the prayards, it was foiit therefore bee

26 Lib. i.

28 Millin,

29 Gori, J