154 The Dance of Death.

121110. is a vignette of Death aiming an arrow at a gioupconsisting of a pope, cardinal, &c. Another Death is be-hind, on the spectator's left.

In " Heures de Notre Dame mises en reyne," &c. byPierre Gringoire, 1527, 8vo. there is a cut at fo. lx. beforethe u vigilles de la mort," of a king lying on a bier in a chapelwith tapers burning, several mourners attending, and onthe ground a pot of holy water. A hideous figure of Deathholding a scythe in one hand, and a horn in the other,tramples on the body of the deceased monarch.

In a folio missal for the use of Salisbury, printed atParis by Francis Regnault, 1531, there is a singular cutprefixed to the "Officium Mortuorum," representing twoDeaths seizing a body that has the horrible appearance ofhaving been some time in its grave.

In a Flemish metrical translation of Pope InnocentIll's work, " De vilitate conditionis humanae," Ghend, 1543,i2mo. there is a wood-cut of Death emerging from hell rarmed with a dart and a three-pronged fork, with which heattacks a party taking their repast at a table.

In the cuts to the Old Testament, be? "ti fully engravedon wood by Solomon or Le petit Bernard, Lyons, 1553,i2mo. Death is introduced in the vision of Ezekiel, ch.xxxvii. In this work the expulsion from Paradise isimitated from the same subject in the Lyons wood-cuts.

In " Hawes's History of Graund Amoure and la belPucell, called the Pastime of Pleasure," printed by R.Tottel, 1555, 4to. are two prints; the first exhibits a femaleseated on a throne, in contemplation of several men andanimals, some of whom are lying dead at her feet; behindthe throne Death is seen armed with a dart, which he seemsto have been just making use of: there is no allusion to itin the text, and it must have been intended for some otherwork. The second print has two figures of Death and ayoung man, whom he threatens with a sort of mace in hisright hand, whilst he holds a pick-axe with his left.

"Imagines elegantissimae quae multum lucis ad intelli-gendos doctrinae Christianae locos adferre possunt, collectaea Johann Cogelero verbi divini ministro, Stetini." Yiteberg,1560, i2mo. It contains a wood-print, finely executed, oithe following subject:—In the front Death, armed with a