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The Dance of Death.

German verses. Most of the subjects are copied from thecompletest editions of the Lyons cuts, with occasional slightvariations. They are not placed in the same order, and allare reversed, except Nos. 57 and 60. No. 12 is not re-versed, but very much altered, a sort of duplicate of theMiser. No. 50, the Jew, and No. 51, the Jewess, areentirely new. The latter is sitting at a table, on which is aheap of money, and Death appears to be giving effectivedirections to a demon to strangle her. No. 52 is also new.A castle within a hedge. Death enters one of the windowsby a ladder, whilst a woman looks out of another. 9 Thesubject is from Jeremiah, ch. ix. v. 21. " Death is come upinto our windows," &c. In the subject of the Pope, thetwo Devils are omitted. Two military groups of boys,newly designed, are added. The following are copies fromAldegrever, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 11, and 12. At the beginningand end of the book there are moral poems in the Germanlanguage.

II. Another edition of the same cuts. The title-page ofthe copy here described is unfortunately lost. It has adedication in Latin to three patricians of Frankfort on theMaine by Daniel Meisner a Commenthaw, Boh. Poet. L. C.dated, according to the Roman capitals, in a passage fromPsalm xlvi., in the year 1623. This is followed by the Latinepigram, or address to the reader, by Geo. iEmylius, whosetranslations of the original French couplets are also given,as well as the originals themselves. These are printed onpages opposite to the subjects, but they are often very care-lessly transposed. At the end the date 1623 is twicerepeated by means of the Roman capitals in two versesfrom Psalms lxxviii. and lxiii., the one German, the otherLatin. i2mo.

III. " Icones Mortis sexaginta imaginibus totidemqueinscriptionibus insignitse, versibus quoque Latinis et novisGermanicis illustratse. Vorbildungen desz Todtes, insechtzig figuren durch alle Stande und Geschlechte, der-selbigen nichtige Sterblichkeit furzuweisen, ausgebracht,und mit Lateinischen und neuen Teutschen Verszleinerklaret, durch Johann Vogel. Bey Paulus Fursten Kuns-

9 This is the same subject as that in the Augustan monasterydescribed in p. 41.

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