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llie Dance of Death,

writer. See the notes to " Measure for Measure," Act IHSc. i, and to Pericles, Act III. Sc. 2.

In " Musart Adolescens Academicus sub institutioneSalomonis," Duaci, 1633, i2mo. is an engraving on copperof a modern Bacchus astride upon a wine-cask drawn bytwo tigers. In one hand he holds a thyrsus composed ofgrapes and vine-leaves, and in the other a cup or vase,from which a serpent springs, to indicate poison. Behindthis Bacchus Death is seated, armed with his scythe andlying in wait for him. The motto, " Vesani calices quidnon fecere," a parody on the line, " Fecundi calices quemnon fecere disertum'?" Horat. lib. i. epist. 5. 1. 19.

In "Christopher Van Sichem's Bibel's Tresoor," 1646,4to. there is a wood-cut of Death assisting Adam to digthe ground, partly copied from the subject of "the Curse,"in the work printed at Lyons.

In " De Chertablon, maniere de se bien preparer a lamort," &c. Anvers, 1700, 4to. there is an allegorical print,in which a man is led by his guardian angel to the dwellingof Faith, Hope, and Charity, but is violently seized byDeath, who points to his last habitation, in the shape of asepulchral monument.

In Luyken's "Onwaardige wereld," Amst. 1710, i2mo.are three allegorical engravings relating to this subject.

In a very singular book, entitled "Confusio dispositarosis rhetorico-poeticis fragrans, sive quatuor lusus satyrico-morales, &c. authore Josepho Melchiore Francisco a Glarus,dicto Tschudi de Greplang," Augsburg, 1725, i2mo. arethe following subjects :—1. The world as Spring, representedby a fine lady in a flower-garden, Death and the Devilbehind her. 2. Death and the Devil lying in wait for themiser. 3. Death and the Devil hewing down the barrenfig-tree. 4. A group of dancers at a ball interrupted byDeath. 5. Death striking a lady in bed attended by herwaiting-maid. 6. Death gives the coup de grace to adrunken fellow who had fallen down-stairs. 7. Deathmounted on a skeleton-horse dashes among a group of richmen counting their gold, &c. 8. A rich man refusedentrance into heaven. He has been brought to the gate ina sedan chair, carried by a couple of Deaths in full-bottomperiwigs.