The Dance of Death.

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following personages, there being no females among them.It was reprinted by the same printer in 1521.

Papa

Imperator

Cardinales.

Archiepiscopus

Eques

Episcopus.

Rex

PatriarcheCapitanus.

PlebanusLaboratorFrater Minor.

Amans

Advocatus

Joculator.

Artrologus

Cives

Canonicus.

Scutifer

Abbas

Pretor.

MonachusUsurariusMedicus.

Mercator

Certosinus

Nuncius.

Puer

Sacristanus

Heremita.

No. XIX. " Hore beate Marie Virginis ad usum insignisac preclare ecclesie Sarum cum figuris passionis mysteriumrepresentatibus recenter additis. Impresse Parisiis perJohannem Bignon pro honesto viro Richardo Fakes,London, librario, et ibidem commorante cymeterie SanctiPauli sub signo A. B. C." 1521. A ledger-like i2mo. ThisMacaber Dance is unfortunately imperfect in the only copyof the book that has occurred. The figures that remain arethose of the Pope, King, Cardinal, Patriarch, Judge, Arch-bishop, Knight, Mayor, and Earl.

Under each subject are Lydgate's verses, with someslight variation; and it is therefore very probable that wehave here a copy, as to many of the figures, of the Dancethat was painted at St. Paul's in compartments like theother Macaber Dance, and not as the group in Dugdale,which has been copied from a wood-cut at the end ofLydgate's " Fall of Prynces." As all the before-mentionedHorae were printed at Paris, with one exception only, andmany of them at a very early period, it is equally probablethat they may be copies of the Dance at the Innocents,unless a preference in that respect should be given to thefigures in the French editions of the Danse Macabre.

Manuscript Horas, or books of prayers, which containthe Macaber Dance, are in the next place deserving of our