The Dance of Death
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sarcophagus are several females weeping ; on the other, aphilosopher sitting, who addresses a group of sovereigns,&c. who are looking at the skeleton.
"Palingenii Zodiacus Vitse." Rotterdam, 1722. i2mo.Death seizes a sitting figure crowned with laurel, perhapsintended for Virtue, who clings to a bust of Minerva, &c.
Death leading a bishop holding his crozier. He is pre-ceded by another Death as a bellman with bell andlanthorn. Above, emblems of mortality over a label, in-scribed "A Vision." i2mo.
Scene, a churchyard. Death holding an hour-glass inone hand, levels his dart at a young man in the habit of anecclesiastic, with a mask in his hand. "Worlidge inv.Boitard sculp." The book unknown. 8vo.
Three figures of Death uncovering a circular mirror, witha group of persons dying, &c. At bottom, ingredimvr,cvncti. dives, cvm. paupere. mixtvs. J. Sturt sculp.
Death touching a globe, on which is inscribed vanity,appears to a man in bed. " Hayman inv. C. Grignion sc."8vo.
To a little French work, entitled " Spectriana," Paris,1817, 241x10. there is a frontispiece on copper representingthe subject of one of the stories. A figure of Death en-cumbered with chains beckons to an armed man to followhim into a cave.