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" Les Consolations de l'Ame fidelle contre les frayeursde la mort, par Charles Drelincourt." Amsterdam, 1660.8vo.
" Deugden Spoor De Vijfte Der-Eeringe Aen de Medi-ci jas met sampt Monsieur Toncker Doctor Koe-Beest endealle sijne Complicen." Death introduces an old man toa physician who is inspecting a urinal. 12mo.
Death leading an old man with a crutch, near a charnel-house, inscribed memento mori. At top these verses :—
II faut sans differer me suivre
Tu dois etre pret a partirDieu ne t'a fait si longtemps vivre
Que pour t'aprendre a bien mourir.
At Amsterdam chez Henri Desbordes. Another print, withthe same design. " Se vendent a Londres par Daniel DuChemin." On a spade, the monogram J-4« . 8vo.
" Reflexions sur les grands hommes." In the foregroundvarious pranks of Death. In the distance, a churchyardwith a regular dance, in a circle, of men, women andDeaths, two of the latter sitting on a monument andplaying on a violin and violoncello. Engraved by A. D.Putter. 12mo.
" La Danse Macabre, or Death's Duell," by W. C. i. e.Colman. Printed by Wm. Stansby, no date, i2mo. It hasan elegantly engraved frontispiece by T. Cecil, with eightcompartments, exhibiting Death with the pope, the emperor,the priest, the nobles, the painter, the priest, and thepeasant. The poem, in six-line stanzas, is of considerablemerit, and entirely moral on the subject of Death, but it isnot the Macaber Dance of Lydgate. At the end, theauthor apologises for the title of his book, which, he says,was injuriously conferred by Roger Muchill upon a sermonof Dr. Donne's, and adds a satirical epistle against" Muchill that never did good." There certainly was asermon by Donne, published by Muchill or Michel, withthe title of " Death's Duell."
There appears to have been another edition of this book,the title-page only of which is preserved among Bagford'scollections among the Harl. MSS. No. 5930. It has thesame printed title, with the initials W. C. and the name ofW. Stansby. It is also without date. This frontispiece is