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7. Memorables authoritez, et sentences des philosophes, etorateurs Payens pour confermer les vivans i. non craindrela mort. 8. De la necessite de la mort qui ne laisse riensestre par durable." With forty-one cuts. This may besafely regarded as the first edition of the work. There isnothing in the title-page that indicates any preceding one.

II. "Les Simulachres et historiees faces de la mort,contenant la Medecine de Tame, utile et necessaire nonseulement aux malades mais a tous qui sont en bonnedisposition corporelle. D'avantage, la forme et manierede consoler les malades. Sermon de sainct Cecile Cyprian,intitule de Mortalite. Sermon de S. Jan Chrysostome,pour nous exhorter a patience : traictant aussi de la con-sommation de ce siecle, et du second advenement de JesusChrist, de la joye eternelle des justes, de la peine et dam-nation des mauvais, et autres choses necessaires a unchascun chrestien, pour bien vivre et bien mourir. ALyon, a l'escu de Coloigne, chez Jan et Francois Frellonfreres," 1542, i2mo. With forty-one cuts. Then a moralepistle to the reader, in French. The descriptions of thecuts in Latin and French as before, and the piecesexpressed in the title-page.

III. " Imagines Mortis. His accesserunt, Epigrammata,e Gallico idiomate a Georgio ^Emylio in Latinum translata.Ad haec, Medicina animse, tarn iis qui firma, quam quiadversa corporis valetudine praediti sunt, maxime necessaria.Ratio consolandi ob morbi gravitatem periculose decum-bentes. Quae his addita sunt, sequens pagina common-strabit. Lugduni, sub scuto Coloniensi, 1545." With thedevice of the crab and the butterfly, At the end, " LugduniExcudebant Joannes et Franciscus Frellonii fratres," 1545,i2mo. The whole of the text is in Latin, and translated,except the scriptural passages, from the French, by George^Emylius, as he also states in some verses at the beginning;but several of the mottoes at bottom are different andenlarged. It has forty-two cuts, the additional one,probably not by the former artist, being that of the beggarsitting on the ground before an arched gate : extremelyfine, particularly the beggar's head. This subject has noconnexion with the Dance of Death, and is placed inanother part of the volume, though in subsequent editions..