130 7he Dance of Death.

perhaps nowhere else to be met with. The designs are thesame as those in the second Dance of the Horae, printedby Higman for Vostre, No. I. page 53.

II. "A booke of Christian prayers, collected out of theancient writers," &c. Printed by J. Day, 1569. 4to.Afterwards in 1578, 1581, 1590, and 1609. It is morefrequently mentioned under the title of "Queen Elizabeth'sprayer-book," a most unsuitable title, when it is recollectedhow sharply this haughty dame rebuked the Dean of Christ-church for presenting a Common Prayer to her which hadbeen purposely ornamented with cuts by him. 1 This bookwas most probably compiled by the celebrated John Fox,and is accompanied with elegant borders in the margins ofevery leaf cut in wood by an unknown artist, w r hose mark is(£, though they have been most unwarrantably ascribedto Holbein, and even to Agnes Frey, the wife of AlbertDiirer, who is not known with any certainty to havepractised the art of engraving. At the end is a Danceof Death different from every other of the kind, and ofsingular interest, as exhibiting the costume of its time withrespect to all ranks and conditions of life, male and female.In the library at Lambeth Palace, No. 1049, there is a copyof this book in Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, English, andFrench, printed by J. Day, 1569, 8vo. It was given byArchb. Tillotson, and from a memorandum in it supposedto have been the Queen's own copy. The cut of the Queenkneeling was used so late as 1652, in Benlowes' Theophila.Some of the cuts have the unexplained mark (£ .

These are the characters :—"The Emperor, the King, theDuke, the Marques, the Baron, the Vicount, the Archbishop,the Bishop, the Doctor, the Preacher, the Lord, the Knight,the Esquire, the Gentleman, the Judge, the Justice, theSerjeant at law, the Attorney, the Mayor, the Shirife, theBailife, the Constable, the Physitian, the Astronomer, theHerauld, the Sergeant at arms, the Trumpetter, thePursevant, the Dromme, the Fife, the Captaine, theSouldier, the Marchant, the Citizen, the Printers (in twocompartments), the Rich Man, the Aged Man, the Artificer,

1 Strype's Annals, i. 272, where the curious dialogue that ensued onthe occasion is preserved.