CHAPTER X.

Other Dances of Deat

| AVING thus disposed of the two mostancient and important works on thesubject in question, others of a similarnature, but with designs altogether dif-ferent, and introduced into various books,remain to be noticed, and such are thefollowing :—I. " Les loups ravissans fait et conpose par maistre Robert Gobin prestre, maistre des a:licencie en decret, doyen de crestiente de Laigny stMarne au dyocese de Paris, advocat en court d'egliscImprime pour Anthoine Verard a Paris." 4to. without datebut about 1500. This is a very bitter satire, in the forrof a dream, against the clergy in general, but more particularly against Popes John XXII. and Boniface VIII. 1wolf, in a lecture to his children, instructs them in eveikind of vice and wickedness, but is opposed, and his doctrines refuted, by an allegorical personage called HoiDoctrine. In a second vision Death appears to the authoraccompanied by Fate, War, Famine, and Mortality. Alclasses of society are formed into a Dance, as the authdchooses to call it, and the work is accompanied with twenty-one very singular engravings on wood, executed in a styk

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