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The Dance of Death.

shield, inscribed pietas, levels a dart at the queenUnderneath, these verses :—

Grand Dieu je suis done le victime

Qu'une vengeance legitime

Doit immoler a tes autelsJe n'ay point de repos qui n'augmente ma peineEt les tristes objets d'une face mhumaine

Me sont autant de coups mortels.

Oblong, 41 by 3.

An engraving by John Sadeler, after Stradanus, of an oldcouple, with their children and grandchildren, in the kitchenof a farm-house. Death enters, fantastically crowned withflowers and an hour-glass, and with a bagpipe in his lefthand. Round his right arm and body is a chain with ahook at the extremity. He offers his right hand to the oldwoman, who on her knees is imploring him for a little moredelay. In the background, a man conducted to prison ;beergars receiving alms, &c. At bottom, these lines :—

Pauperibus mors grata venit; redimita coronaFlorifera, et luctus ultima risus habet.

On the top of the print, " O mors, bonum est judiciumtuum homini indigenti, et qui minoratur viribus, defectosetate," &c. Eccl. cap. xli. Oblong, 11 by 8£.

An exceedingly clever etching by Tiepolo of a group ofvarious persons, to whom Death, sitting on the ground andhabited grotesquely as an old woman, is reading a lecture.Oblong, 7 by 5*.

A small circle, engraved by Le Blond, of Death appearingto the astrologer, copied from the same subject in the Lyonswood-cuts.

A print, painted and engraved by John Lyvijus, of twocard-players quarrelling. Death seizes and strikes at themwith a bone. Below,

Rixas atque odia satagit dispergere serpens,Antiquus, cuncta at jurgia morte cadunt.

Oblong, 10 by 7^.

An engraving by Langlois. Death with a basket at hisshoulder, on which sits an owl, and holding with one handa lantern, seizes the dice of a gambler sitting at a tablewith his winnings spread before him. At top, these verses :—