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The Dance of Death.
a snake biting one of the skulls. On the right-hand cornelat bottom is the letter gH, perhaps the mark of the unknownengraver. The explanations on the pages opposite to eachprint are in German and Latin verses, the latter by ^Emylius,with occasional variations. This edition has the sixty printsin the two preceding Nos., some of them having been re-touched ; and the cut of the King at table, No. 9, is by adifferent engraver from the artist of the same No. in thepreceding 4to. edition, No. i. The present edition hasalso an additional engraving at the end, representing a gate,within which are seen several skulls and bones, other skullsin a niche, and in the distance a cemetery with coffins andcrosses. Over the gate a skull on each side, and on theouter edge of the arch is the inscription, " Quis Rex, quissubditus hie est 1 " At bottom,
Hie sage wer es sagen kan I Here let tell who may :
Wer konig sey ? wer unterthan. Or, which be the king ? which the
subject ?Paulus Furst Excu.
The whole of the print in a border of skulls, bones, snakes,toads, and a lizard. Opposite to it the date 1647 is to begathered from the Roman capitals in two scriptural quo-tations, the one in Latin, the other in German, ending withthis colophon, " Gedruckt zu Nuremberg durch ChristoftLochner. In Verlegung Paul Fursten Kunsthandlern allda."i2mo.
IV. A set of engravings, 8 inches by 8, of which thesubject of the Pedlar only has occurred on the presentoccasion. Instead of the trump-marine, which one of theDeaths plays on in the original cut, this artist has substituteda violin, and added a landscape in the background. Belowari these verses :—
La Mort.
Sus ? cesse ton traficq, car il fault a ceste heure
Que tu sente l'effort de mon dard assere.
Tu as assez vescu, il est temps que tu meure,
Mon coup inevitable est pour toy prepare.
Le Marchant.Et de grace pardon, arreste ta cholere.Je suis pauvre marchant appaise ta rigueur.Permete qu'encore uti temps je vive en ceste terre ;Et puis tu recevras l'offrande de mon cceur.