180 The Dance of Death.

Jaques aux deax piliers d'or." An upright mezzotint, toby 7 ±

An oval engraving in a frame of slips of trees. Deathpulling down a fruit-tree ; a hand in a cloud cutting aflower with a sickle. Motto, " Fortiora frango, tenera meto. ,,Upright, 6\ by 4.

An anonymous engraving of a lady sitting at her toilet.She starts at the reflected image of Death standing behindher, in her looking-glass. Her lover stands near her in theact of drawing his sword to repel the unwelcome visitor.Upright, 7i by 6\. To some such print or painting,Hamlet, holding a skull in his hand, evidently alludes inAct v. Sc. 1 : " Now get you to my lady's chamber, andtell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she mustcome."

A print of the Tree of Knowledge, the serpent holdingthe apple in his mouth. Below, several animals, as in theusual representations of Paradise. On one side a youth onhorseback with a hawk on his fist; on the other, Deathstrikes at him with his dart. On the right, at bottom, theletters " R. P. ex." and these verses :—

Nor noble, valiant, youthfull or wifae, haveThe least exemption from the gloomy grave.

Upright, 6 by 4.

A large oblong engraving, on copper, 22 by 17. On theleft is an arched cavern, from which issue two Deaths, oneof whom holds a string, the end of which is attached to anowl, placed as a bird-decoy, on a pillar in the middle ofthe print. Under the string, three men reading. On theleft, near a tree, is a ghastly sitting figure, whose head hasbeen flayed. On the opposite side below, a musical groupof three men and a woman. In the background, severalmen caught in a net; near them, Death with a houndpursuing three persons who are about to be intercepted bya net spread between two trees. In the distance, a vesselwith a Death's head on the inflated sail. On the top of thearched cavern, a group of seven persons, one of whom, afemale, points to the interior of an urn ; near them a flyingangel holding a blank shield of arms. In the middle ofthe print, at bottom, some inscription has been erased.