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EMBLEMS 
 
 O F 
 
 MORTALITY; 
 
 REPRESENTING 
 
 In upwards of Fifty Cuts, 
 
 B E A TH 
 
 Seizing all Ranks and Degrees of People ; 
 
 Imitated from a Painting in the Cemetery of the 
 • Dominican Church at Bazil, in Switzerland : 
 
 Tzih an Apoftrophe to each, tranfiated from ihp 
 Latin and French* 
 
 Intended as well for the Information of tli§ 
 Curious, as the Lnftruction and Enter- 
 tainment of Youth. • 
 
 TO WHICH IS FREFIXED, 
 
 d copious Preface, containing an hifior leal Account of 
 the above, and other Paintings on this Su>jet%novj 
 or lately cxifling m divers Farts of Europe, 
 
 The THIRD EDIT I O N. 
 ftonaon : 
 
 Printed by Robert B \ s s A m, 
 No - S3> h* John's. Street. Weft SntitbhckL 
 
e 
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 THE Work here prefented to the Reader 
 is a Copy, with afmall Variation no- 
 ticed hereafter, as to the Cuts, and a Tranf- 
 lation; as to the Letter-Prefs, of one well 
 known to the Curious by the Title of Ima- 
 gines mortis, or, The Images of Death ; 
 which is reported to be in reality indebted for 
 its exiftence to an event that Boccace did but 
 feign as the occafion of writing his Became- 
 ron; I mean the calamity of a Plague: and 
 its Hiftory is as follows : 
 
 Pope Eugenius IV. having fummoned a 
 Council to meet at the City of Bafle, or, as 
 it is more ufually called, BanT, in Switzer- 
 land; it accordingly met there in the Year 
 I431, and continued to fit for feventeen 
 years, nine months, and twenty feven davs ; 
 or, according to Mr. Walpole*. but fifteen 
 years in the whole ; and at this Ctuncil, the 
 Pope himftlf, and after his death his Suc- 
 ceflor, Felix V. Sigismond, Emperor of 
 Germany, Albert 11. the« /KiflgaOf die 
 
 *jfntcdctcs of Paintltifcf Svo, Vol, I. P. 123. 
 
 A 3 Romans, 
 
( H ) 
 
 Romans, and many other Princes and perfons 
 of diftinguifhed rank were prefent. Daring 
 the fitting of this Council, viz. in the Year 
 1439, the City of Bafil was vihted with a 
 Plague, which raged for fome time with ex- 
 treme Violence, and carried off many of the 
 Nobility, and feveral Cardinals and Prelates 
 who attended that Council, fome of whom 
 were interred in the very Cemetery where the 
 Painting, of which we are about to fpeak, now 
 is; and, on the ceiTation of the diftemper, the 
 furviving Members of the Council, with a 
 view to "perpetuate the memory of this event, 
 and of their providential deliverance from its 
 eMs, caufed to be painted on Oil on the 
 walls of the Cemetery, near the Convent ot 
 the Dominicans, a Dance ofDvath, reprefent- 
 inz all ranks of perform, from the Pope to the 
 Peafanr, as individually leized by Death; 
 adding alfo to each r -igure eighr lines in Ger- 
 man, four of them containing an addrefsfrom 
 Death to them feverally, the other four their 
 reply. The name of the Painter employed on 
 this occafion has not been tranfmitted down 
 to us with certainty; but fome perfons have 
 imagined that this Painting was the work of 
 Hans Holbein : Whether it were done by 
 him or another (hall be hereafter confidered ; 
 but, in the mean time, we (hall here proceed 
 to relate the fubiequent hiltory ot the Paint- 
 ing itfelf- 
 
 It is, however, to be obferv^d, that Mat- 
 thewMe^un, who, in 1649, publithed 
 
 in 
 
( W ) 
 
 in German, at Franckfort, in fm all Quarto,, 
 a Book, entitled Todten Tanz, or, Death's 
 Dance, containing Engravings from tie above 
 mentioned Painting*, and from the Preface to 
 whole Work, as tranilated into French, in 
 an Edition printed at Bafil in 1744, moil of 
 the foregoing facts are extracted, does not 
 fpeak in pofitive Terms as to the precife tune 
 when the original Figures were painted, but 
 only fays, that they are believed, and with 
 great probability, to be of that time in which 
 he had placed them ; in further confirmation 
 of which he has noticed, ,that Sigismond 
 was himfelf a Lover and extraordinary Pa- 
 tron of the Arts, and had always a out him 
 a number of Artifts ; and that John ab 
 EycK, the inventor of Oil Pain, ing, flou- 
 rifhed in his reign; but Mr. Warton-J- has 
 related (though it does not appear on what 
 
 * As it may afford the Reader fome fatisfa&ion to be in-, 
 formed particularly what Characters a^e repref^nted in this 
 Painting, we here give a lift of them fYo-n Merian's En- 
 gravings mentioned in the Text: At the Btdnn ng is a Cut 
 of Oecolomp.adius preaching j next rpl »ws 1 ne of a 
 Charnel-Houfe, and two Figures ot Death piping? fter 
 which, in ciftmft Cuts, are given the Pope, tmp r r, Em- 
 prefs, King, QjjeeVi, Cardinal, Bifliop, Duke, Duchefs, 
 Count, Abbot, Knight, Liuvyer, Magi-'trate, Canon, Phy- 
 fician, Gentleman, Lay, Merchant, Abbefs, Cripple, Her- 
 mit, Young Man, Dfurer, Maide.), Mufician, Herald, 
 Mayor, Grand Proved, Buffoon, Pedlar, Blind Man, Jew, 
 Pagan. Female Pagan, Cock, Peafaat, Painter, Painter's 
 Wife. 
 
 f Htfvy (/Petty, Vol. II. P. 54. « « %*• 
 
 207136 Autho. 
 
( * ) 
 
 Authority) not only that Holbein was the 
 Painter, but that the fubjedt. in queftion was 
 painted in 15+3* in which I conceive him 
 misinformed : For Merian was, as he him- 
 felf tells us, a native of Bafil, and pofllbly 
 might have had his account by Tradition ; and 
 had the Painting been of no earlier date than 
 1543, it is hardly probable (confidering too 
 that it is in Oil) that it mould have been fo 
 much injured by Time as to ftand in need, as 
 we find it did, of an almoft total repair in 
 1568: To all which I add t that Merian 
 feems fo well fatisfied of the truth of his ac- 
 count, that he tells us further that the Figures 
 were drawn from Nature, and are drefled 
 each in the habit of the time ; and that thofe 
 of the Pope, Emperor, and King, are respect- 
 ively Portraits of Felix V. who fucceeded 
 Eugenius IV. Sigismond, Emperor of 
 Germany, and Albert II. King of the Ro- 
 man b ; allot whom, as we have before re- 
 marked, were prefent at the Council, 
 
 Mr. Walpole* mentions that this Painting 
 was repaired in 1529 ; but in this he feems to 
 have been milled (accidentally taking one 
 date inttead of another) by a Paffage ia the 
 Pretace to Merian's Book before cited. 
 Merian informs us, that the Painting in 
 queftion having been much injured by Time, 
 John Hugh Klauber, a Painter, and Citi- 
 
 frfneedete of Paintingi 2vtf»V©l, I. P. 1*3. 
 
 zeu 
 
( v ) 
 
 sen of Bafil, was, in 1568, employed to re- 
 pair it; and that, finding a vacancy on the 
 vvall fufficient for his purpofe, he added at the 
 Head of the Painting a portrait of Johan- 
 nes Oecolompadius, in memory or the 
 reformation in 1529, to which his preaching 
 thegofpeltoall ranks, as he did, might be 
 iuppofed in fome final! degree to contribute ; 
 and at the end of the Painting, on another 
 part of the wall, he added the portraits ot 
 hiinfelf, his wife, and his children : Ami this 
 repair by Klauber, Merian tells us fur- 
 ther, was commemorated in a Latin 1 ablet, 
 which in his time hung near the Painting. 
 Some time after, it was again repaired, and 10 
 without any further repair, it continued till 
 Merian's time; but Keysler, who vilited 
 it in 1729, in his Travels, Vol. I. P. 171* 
 edit. 8vo. 1760, relates, that the original co- 
 lours were then totally effaced, that only the 
 outlines of the Figures were left, and that it 
 had been lately repaired. 
 
 The thought of thus allegorical.reprefenta- 
 tion of Death, though in the prefent initance 
 immediately fuggefted by the event above re- 
 lated, was not in itfelf original, but borrow- 
 ed in fome meafure from a kind of Mafque- 
 rade, which Mr, Warton* obferves was 
 anciently celebrated in the Churches abrcacL 
 particularly thofe of France,and among other* 
 
 • Hijlory of Poetry, Vol. I. P. a 10 
 
 it 
 
( vi ) 
 
 it feerns to have been performed in St. Inno* 
 cent's Church at Paris, and in which all ranks 
 and degreesfof perfons were perfonated by the 
 Ecclefiaftics of thofe Churches, who all dan- 
 ced together, and then difappeared ; and it is 
 certain that before the calamity above-menti- 
 oned happened at Bafil, and ccnfequently be- 
 fore this Painting, there was begun, Allufi- 
 ons to a Dance of Death occurred in the wri- 
 tings of the Authors of the Time, fte refe- 
 rence, no doubt, to that kind of Mafquerade. 
 It were needlefs to introduce a number of quo- 
 tations to fupport this alien ion ; but as forne 
 proof may, perhaps, be expected, I here in- 
 fert from The V'ifion of Piers Plowman, 
 written about 1350, the following P^fTage, 
 with which Mr.. Walton's Hi ft. of Poetry, 
 Vol. II. P. 54, has furniihed me: 
 
 *' Death came driving after, and all to Dufl pafs'd Kings 
 <c and Caefars, Knights and Popes." 
 
 And I further find that, feveral years prior to 
 the breaking out of this Plague at Bafil, the 
 idea had ever been carried into execution; 
 for that in 1 384, a Death's Dance had been 
 painted at Minden, in Weftphalia*: But no 
 fooner had this Painting bean hnilhed, and 
 become, as it very foon after did, univerially 
 celebrated all over Europe, but the Dance of 
 Death became a very favourite fubjecT:, and 
 and was frequently painted in pubiic build- 
 
 * Wart ox's Hi/, cf Poetry, Vo?. II- P. 5*. f Ibid. 
 
( V.l j 
 
 ings. Theearlieii inflance which has yn 
 occurred, fuhfequent to the Painting of E ill], 
 is one which Mr. Warton^ mentions at 
 Lubec, in the Portico of Jit. Mary's Church, 
 painted in 1463, and of which Dr. Nugent, 
 in his Travels, Vol. I. P. 102, freaking of 
 Lubec, gives the following account : 
 
 " But the mod noted thing in St. Mary's 
 " Church is the Painting called Death's Dance, 
 " Jo muoh talked of in all parts of Germany 
 ''It was originally drawn in 14&3, but the 
 f Figures were repaired at different times, 
 M ft m 1588, 1642, and latt of all in 1701. 
 « Here you fee the representation of Death 
 * c leading an Emperor in his impeiial robes, 
 « who with his other hand takes hold of fuch 
 V another Figure, which leads up to a King: 
 ? and fo alternately a figure of Death and a 
 M human perfoa through all conditions and 
 ft fbges of life. The intention of the Amir 
 g was to fliew that Death pays no regard to 
 " age or condition, which is Eriore parrjcular? 
 «* lv exprefTed in the Verfes underneath. 
 " They werecompofedatfirir inPlat Deutcff 
 * c orLow Dutch; but at the laft repair, in 
 » 170*, it was thought proper to changes 
 * c them into German verfes, which were writ- 
 ten hy Nathaniel Schlott, of Dant- 
 « zick.>' Of thd'e verfes Dr. Nugent has 
 Parted k tranflation from the original Ger- 
 man, by a lady of Dantzick, from which it 
 appears that the originals conffft of, firft, an 
 Apoflrophc of Death to all, and then an Ad- 
 
 drefs 
 
drefs of Death to one individual ; then follows 
 hi, reply ; after that, Death's addrefs to ano- 
 ther; next, his reply ; and fo on. It furtherap- 
 pear. from theTranilatmn, that the charaflers 
 delineated in the Painting are the following: 
 The Pope, Emperor, Emprefs, Cardinal, 
 {, Bifhop, Genera), Abbe Kmght, Ca- 
 thuflan, Burgomafter, Prebendary, Noble- 
 ma. , Phvfician, Ufurer Chaplain Steward, 
 Church- Warden, Tradefman, Reclufe, Pea- 
 font, Young Man, Maiden Infant, Dan- 
 cLVMafter, and Fencmg-Mafter. 
 
 In addition to this inftance we learn/that 
 ;„ he reign of Henry the Sixth, one Jenkem 
 C^penteR caufed'to be painted at h,s ex- 
 £*« on the walls of the Cloifter of Sc.Paul's 
 Cathedral, London*, theDanceoi Macha- 
 bray, or Dance of Death* ; and it >s more 
 
 . F " m .rlv called Pardon Church-yard, about which, fays 
 
 Death lead ng all Eftates. 
 -The above [MU- ^"""V^Th^TJ* 
 
 V T0W \ s ^.^^d!n D u^c;* , V;»/^: 
 
 A^ Engraving of, t .3 tr-lert ^j ,„. |ive „ L v»- 
 
 ^" «'s Verfes", thifh he obferves a, the end he had tran. 
 fljIe .\ot Word by Word, but f.nowinj mS.bftan...^ 
 
( i* ) 
 
 th-n probable that the celebrated Painting of 
 the lame kind in St Innocent's Church, in 
 Paris, in like manner owes its original to the 
 Painting at Bafil. 
 
 Nor are thefe the only i nftances in which 
 the fubjecl has been chofen for the decoration 
 of Buildings; for in 1525 it was painted at 
 Annaberg-, and in 1534, in the caul, or pa- 
 lace at Drefden ; as it alio was, though when 
 is unknown, at Leiphc, and other places.* 
 
 The fame inclination in favor of this Sub- 
 ject began alfo, very fcon after the Painting 
 in quertion was known, to diicover itfelf in 
 literary Publications, and in the decorations 
 and ornaments of Books. One Macaber, a 
 French or German Poet, but of what /Era is 
 uncertain, wrote in German a Poem on the 
 Subject of Death's Dance> which, in conle- 
 
 The Chara&ts, ae may be colle&e(! from the Title to the 
 Verfes, are the Pope, Emperor, Cardinal, King, Patriarch, 
 Conrtable, Archbimop, Baron, Princefs, Biihop, Squire, 
 Abbot, Abbefs, Bailiff, Aft-onomer, Burgefs, Can )n Secu- 
 lar, Merchant, Chartreux, Serjeant, Monk, Ufurer, Poy- 
 fician, Amorous Squire, Gentlewoman, Man of Law, Mr. 
 John R ek ill Tregetour, («. e. [u^ler. See the Gloflary 
 toURRY's Chaucer, Art. Tregti) Parfo -., Juror, Min- 
 ted, Labourer, Friar, Mi -.or, Child, Young Clerk, Her- 
 mit, the King eaten of Worms, Machabree, the Doclor. 
 — DtrGDALE, P. 134, fays that Carpenter was a Citi- 
 zen of London, and tha the Painting at St. Paul's was in 
 imitation to that in the Cloifter adjoining to St. Innocent's 
 Church Yard at Paris. 
 
 * War Ton's Hifiery of Poetry, Vol. II. P. 54 
 
 B quence 
 
I x ) 
 
 quince of this cireumftance, is not feldom 
 irom him called Toe Dance c/MacaberS. 
 
 His verfes were tranflated into French, and 
 written round the Cloiiter of St. Innocent's, 
 at Paris, under, as I conceive, the before- 
 mentioned Painting; and from the French 
 Translation, Lydgate, at the requeft of 
 
 § Mr. War ton, in his Obfiwations on Spenser, nrft 
 edit. P. 230, in a Note, lays, that Macaber wrote a de- 
 fcnpt! »n in verfe of a Procellion, pointed on the walls of St 
 Innocent's Cloifter, at Paris, called the Dance of "Death : fo 
 that in this Paffage Mr. Was ton mult be fuopofed to un- 
 derftandthac Macaber's Verfes were written pofterior to 
 that Painting. He further informs us, in the additions and 
 corredhons to the ftcond Volume of his Hifiorj of Poetry ,that 
 the earlieft complete French translation of thefe Verfes was 
 printed in 1499/ but that a ieh perfect edition had been be- 
 tore pubhflied m 1486, and that the French rhymes in this 
 laft are laid to be by Mi c h a e r. M a r r . A Qapy in French 
 QtLe grand-; Danfe de Macasri da Hommes et da Temmes 
 primed m 4 to. at Troyes lor John Garnier, but without 
 a Da'e, I have hen] and find from the Verfes' under e^ch 
 Cut, that the Characters are the Pope, Emperor, Cardinal, 
 King, Legate, Duke, Patriarch, Constable, Archbiihop, 
 Knight, Bifhop, Squire, Abbot, Bailiff Aftrologer, Bur. 
 ge.s, Canon, Merchant, Scho d-Mafter, Man of Arms, Ser- 
 jeant, Chartrtux, Monk, Ufurer, Phyfician, Lover, Ad- 
 vocate, Minflre", Curate, Laboure-, Proctor, Gaoler, Pil- 
 grim, Shepherd. Cordelier, Child, Clerk, Hermit, Adven- 
 turer, Fool. The Women are the Queen, Duchefi, Re- 
 gent's Wife, Knight's Wife, Abbefs, Squire's Wife Shep- 
 herdefs, Cnpple, Burgefs's Wife, Widow, Merchant** 
 Wife, Bailiff's Wife, Young Wife, Dainty Dame, Female 
 Philofcpher, New married Wife, Woman with Child, Old 
 Maid, Female Cordelier, Chambermaid, Iate.ligerce-Wo- 
 man, Hoitefs, Nurfe, Priorefs, Damf-1, Country Girl, Old 
 Chambermaid, Huclcrtrefs, Strumpsr, Nurfe for Lyihg-ia 
 Women, Young Girl, Religious Sorcerefs, Bigot, Fool. 
 
 the 
 
f xi ') 
 
 fbe Denn and Chapter of St. Paul's*, made a 
 Yerficn, which was afterwards infcribed on 
 the Walls of their Church, under the Paint- 
 ing of the fame lubject. 
 
 Tt would he an endlefs taik, and afford hut 
 little entertainment to the reader, to reckon 
 up here a long liil of Bc:4 s in which the iub- 
 ject has been reiterated: We fhall therefore 
 con'ent curfelv.es with mentioning that it ap- 
 peared in the Chronicle of II artm annus 
 Schedilius, printed at Nuremberg in 1493, 
 Folio|, ufually called the Nurembeig Chro- 
 nicle ; in the quotidian offices of the Church, 
 printed at Pans, 1515, in Svo-f- ; in feveral 
 Horse, MiflaTs, &c. and even fo late as in J 
 Book of Chrjjfian Prayers, collected out of the 
 ancient Writers and heft learned of our 7ime 9 
 firil printed in 4to, 1569, and afterwards in 
 the fame fize in 1608 ; and that, in addition 
 to all thele an others which imght be men- 
 tioned, the Painting at Bafcl was the caufe of 
 the Publication of the Imagines Mortis, 
 from which the prefent is copied and transla- 
 ted, and of which, therefore, it will be.necef- 
 iary here to give an account ; firft obferving, 
 that the excellence of the Cuts in the Origi- 
 nal, which are here alio copied w'lth fuffici- 
 ent fidelity, has induced an opinion that they 
 were the work of Holbein - , a fact which we 
 mean hereafter to inquire into. 
 
 * War ton '3 Hill, of Poetry, V. !. II. P. 53. 
 JWarton's Hift-A-y of Poetry, Vol. II, P, 54. f Ibid. 
 
 £2 Pahil- 
 
( *8 ) 
 
 Papillon, in his Tralte h'ifiorique et pra- 
 tique die la Gravureen Boh, 8vo 1766, lorn. 
 1, P. l6o. informs us, that Holbein, having 
 arrive' to a great degree of perfection in Paint- 
 ing, was employed by a Magiftrate of Bafil 
 to paint a Dance of Death in the Fith market 
 of that City, near a Cemetery (by which he 
 undoubtedly means the Painting at Bafil, of 
 which we have fo often had an occa^on to 
 fpeik ;) that this work added much to bis re* 
 put:tion; after which he employed his fkill 
 ill reducing the original Figures ino a fmall 
 fize; a^d that he afterwards engraved them 
 upon woo I, wirk a delicacy and beauty not 
 to be equalled. But unfortunately Papillon 
 her- (peaks A'ithout fufficient attention ; for 
 the Painting at Bafil, a? mav be Jearnt from 
 Mj-rian's Engravings before mentioned, and 
 on tb& accuracy of which 1 ana uiured by an 
 ingenious friend, who lately examined them 
 with the originals, I may rely, confiftsoffin- 
 gle figures, each led by a Figure of Death, 
 and fo.Howing each othe; i a order, fo as to 
 iorm a long proceffion : The fame may be re- 
 marked of the Painting at St. Paul's ; and, for 
 aught that appears to the contrary^ of that at 
 Luoec, and of that at St. Innocent's Church 
 at Paris, and probably of all the others which 
 we have noticed above: Whereas the pre- 
 fent Cuts confilt of feparate compartments, 
 eich containing groupes of Figures, fo that 
 the pieient work is by no means merely a re- 
 duction in fize of the Painting at BafjJ, but 
 is rather to be confidered as founded on the 
 
 fame 
 
( xiii ) 
 
 fame idea, and fuggefled by the original, than 
 as a Copy from it. 
 
 The earlieft edition of theiMAGiNEs Mor- 
 tis which 1 have as yet feen, is one printed, 
 as appears from the Colophon at the end, by 
 xVIelchior and Gaspar Trechsll, in 
 (mall 4to. at Lyons, in 153* : Ii>« French, 
 and ita title is as follows : « Les Stmutechres 
 and Hiftorices faces de la Mori, autant elegam- 
 'merit tourtraicle^ que artifiaelkment imagi* 
 nee 5 : A Lyon's, fiulz VEfcn de Cologne. But 
 Papillon, in Loco jupra at, tells us, that 
 the Cuts to the Imagines Mortis mult 
 have been done about the year 1 530, for that 
 the four fir ft of them occur among Holbeiw s 
 Cuts to the Old Teftament, printed in 1539; 
 and that it is apparent from thole among the 
 Scripture Cuts, that the Blocks had then al- 
 ready furnifhed many thoufan Is of lmprefli- 
 ons. That the four .'firft Cuts of the Ima- 
 gines Mortis are among the Scripture Cuts 
 of Holbein, is certainly true ; but I think 
 I once faw, in the hands of a friend, a Copy 
 of the vulgar Latin Bible, in which thofe 
 Scripture Cuts were infested, and which, it 
 my memory does not greatly deceive me, wa« 
 printed to early as in or about 1518 or 1520. 
 
 The fame Author further relates, that the 
 firft Edition, which he thinks for the above 
 Reafons lhould be placed in the year 1530, 
 was printed at Bafil, or Zuric, with a title to 
 each Cut* and, as he believes, fome verfes 
 T) 2 under 
 
( xiv ) 
 
 under^each, all in the German language, (but 
 that there was an early edition iri Flemifh •) 
 and adds, that the Book, having p-afTed over 
 into France, was much fought after by th<* 
 curious there; io that :» P inter of Lyons was 
 induced to purchale .he Blocks, and that from 
 them he printer, feveral Editions in Latin 
 rrench, and Italian. 
 
 ^ Having thus accounted for the exigence of 
 trie Book, andfdritsairivalinFrar.ee, it re, 
 mams to fpeah of the feveral i m pre ffiens that 
 it there underwent. We have alreadv men- 
 icned one, the earliefc which we know of, 
 printed in fmall Quarto, at L v on<, /ou/z 
 I &Jcu de Cologne, by Melchior and Gas- 
 PARTrech.el, in 1538: The Cuts in this 
 edition are forty three in number, and no 
 more; and over each is, in Latin, a Patfa-e 
 from either the Old or New Tenement cr 
 Apocrypha, wfckn, in the prefer* publicati- 
 °? u g A VCn in £n S lifh > from the tranllatioFi 
 ot the Bible now in ule. Under the Cuts are 
 four lines in French verfe, the fubiiance of 
 winch has been preferved in ail the Editions, 
 whether they were ]n Latin, French, or Ita- 
 iian. Thiscrdition, in order to make it of a 
 tolerable fize, for the Cuts alone would have 
 been too few to constitute a volume^ is ac- 
 companied with everai tracls in 'French, 
 which, as not relating to, 01 connected with 
 oui preient i u jd, we here forbear to enu-* 
 merate ; but it is necefTary, before we clofe 
 our account of this Edition of 1538, to re- 
 mark, 
 
( xt ) 
 
 maik, that it is preceded by a dedication in 
 French, 10 the very Reverend Abbels of the 
 Religious Convent of St. Peter, of Lyons, 
 Madam Jehanne de Tcuszele; and in this 
 dedication the Author of it notices, that the 
 Name and Surname (or, as we term them ? 
 theChriftian and Surname) of theAbbefsand 
 himfelf are precifely the fame in found* ex- 
 cepting only the letter T, from which 1 con- 
 jecture (for his name does not any where ap- 
 pear) that his name was Jean, or, as it was 
 anciently written, Jehan (/. e. John) de 
 Ouszlll, or OxEL-t, as it is now ufually 
 fpelt. In this Dedication is aifo a PafTage, a 
 Tranflation of which uiil be given hereafter, 
 from which it appears that the perfon by whom 
 the Cuts were defigncd, was then dead, lea- 
 ving behind him feveral others of the fame 
 kind, 'a Inch, though drawn, wer© unfinifh- 
 ed, and particularly one reprefenting a Wag- 
 goner cruihed under his overthrown Wag- 
 gon ; in which Cut, a Figure of Death is re- 
 presented fecretly fucking thicugh a reed, the 
 wine out of a Cafk ; and that to thefe unfin- 
 ished Cuts no one had dared to put the laft 
 hand. 
 
 The next Edition in point of time, which 
 1 have ieen, I conceive to have been rhe firft 
 that appeared in Laun, and it was printed in 
 Duodecimo, at Lyons, [ub feu to Colomenf^ 
 by John and Francis Frellon, in 1^42. 
 It contains the fame number of Cuts (and no 
 more) as that of 1538, and is entitled, — 
 
 Ima- 
 
( xvi 
 
 1 
 
 t: Imagines de Morte % et Epigrammatae Galileo 
 idlomate a Georgia Mmylio in Laiinumtr- ->JIa- 
 ta? from whence it appears that it is, in fa£r, 
 a tranflation of the French edition of 1538. 
 This alfo contains fome additional Trafts, all 
 differing from thofe in the edition of 1538, 
 but not in the leaft relating to the prefent in- 
 quiry, and therefore not here particularized, 
 though they have been continued through al- 
 moft all the fubfequent impreffions, and have 
 been f^iven refpe&ively in French, Latin, and 
 Italian, according as the yetfes under the 
 Cuts to the Imagines Mortis were in one 
 or other of thole languages. 
 
 In 1547, another Edition was publiflied of 
 this Book, in French; it was enticed, £i Les 
 Images de la ATort," and printed at Lyons, 
 A CEJcu de Cologne, Chc% Jlhan Frellon ; 
 the Title-page alio inform- us that rwelve Cuts 
 are added to it, and on examination we hnd 
 that the Cuts inferted in page 40, and the ie- 
 ven fubfequent Pages of this Work, and four 
 Cuts. of Boys, winch as not relating to thir. 
 Subject, are in the prefent edition omitted 
 none of which cccur in either the French E- 
 ditions of 1538, or the Latin one of 154.2? the 
 only tw T o prior editions that 1 know of) are 
 to be found in this of 1547.* 
 
 * It cannot be doubtH that thefe additional Cuts are thofe 
 mentioned in the Dedication to the Edition of 1538, as being 
 then left unfinished, for, among them is ye Cut of the 
 Waggoner there particularly defcribed. 
 
( xvii J 
 
 In the fame year, viz 1517, but whether 
 prior or fwbfequent to the I a It. above mention- 
 ed, cartn6t.be "known, mother Latin Edit mq 
 appeared, printed at Lvons by the fam p John 
 Frlllon, and containing the fame increafed 
 number of Cuts as the Fiench one of the lame 
 year, that is to lay. fifty -three in ail; and 
 the fame John Frellon, in I ^49* printed 
 an Edition cif this Work m Italian and Latin, 
 the Paflages from Scripture over the Cuts be- 
 ing in Latin, and the Verfes under <he Cuts 
 in Italian ; and this alfo contains the fame 
 number of Cuts with the two laft mentioned 
 Editions; But Papillon, P. 1 69, remarks 
 that the Blocks when this Edition of 1549 
 was printed, had alrea \y furmfhed more than 
 an hundred thousand impreffions, for that in 
 fome places they appear to be worn 
 
 In 1562, the fame John Frellon publifh- 
 ed another Frencn Edition, which appears, 
 fey the Printers Colophon at the end, to have 
 been printed at Lyons bv Symphorien Bak.- 
 BiER, and which profefTes in the title to be 
 augmented with feventeen Plates. Papillon 
 P. 182, mentions both this Edition and Pe- 
 culiarity, but denies the truth of the aflertion: 
 btcaufe he tells us, that in this rrench Edi- 
 tion he finds but five more Cuts than in the 
 Italian one of 1559 ; notwithstanding which, 
 it is certainly true, as will prelently be pro- 
 ved. Papillon admits that the Edition of 
 of 1562 contains five Cuts more than that of 
 1549, an ^> if he had gone farther back in his 
 
 refearch 
 
'( xviii ) 
 
 refearch, would have found that that of T549 
 (and fo do the French and Latin Editions of 
 *547 ) comprizes twelve more than that of 
 1538, and that thofe twelve wefe firft added 
 to the French and Latin Editions df 1547. 
 The Edition of 1562 does not aflert that that 
 contains feyentem Cuts more than any pre- 
 ceding Edition, hut, reckoning the five which 
 it has more than the impreffion of 1540, and 
 the twelve which rhat has more than the Edi- 
 tion of 1538, and Which are alfo inferted in 
 that of 1 502, thevrmke feventeen Cuts more 
 than were in the Edition of 1538, andconfe- 
 quently juftifv the aflertion in the Title, that 
 the Edition of 1502 contains feventeen additi- 
 onal Cuts. 
 
 The Succefs which fuch a number of Edi- 
 tions feems to imply, induced a Bookfeller 
 ot Cologne to counterfeit the Book ; and, in- 
 itead ot making ufe of the original Cuts, 
 which in all probability he could not procure, 
 he got Copies, and not very exact ones, en- 
 graven from them for his intended Edition. 
 When the firft counterfeited Edition appear- 
 ed, I am net informed; but am induced to 
 think that this Perfon, whom I have above de- 
 fcribecf as a Bookfeller of Cologne, was Ar- 
 noldBirckman, as I find an Edition prin- 
 ted in 1 (555, at Cologne* Apud haredes Ar- 
 noldi BiRCKMANM. In this Edition, and 
 alfo in one printed by the fame perfons in 
 1573, tne Cuts are reverfed, the Tallages 
 from Scripture over the Cuts, and alfo the 
 
 Ver- 
 
( xix ) 
 
 Verfes under the Curs, are in Latin; and 
 both thefe Editions contain the number of 
 Cuts m the Latin and French ones of i c 47 
 and no more ; la the Cut inferted P. 17 of the 
 prefent Edition, is the following Mark /T 
 (imended, no doubt, tor that of the Engra- 
 ver) and which was that of biLvius *nto- 
 nianus, an Artiit of considerable merit. 
 
 Having thus given the Hiftory of *ois ce- 
 lebrated Work, we are now to enquire, i n 
 the firit place, whether the original Painting 
 at Bafif were, or not, painted by Holbfin- 
 and, inthefecond, whether the Imagines 
 Mortis were either defigned or engraven by 
 pirn. J 
 
 As to the firR of thefe quefoons it is be 
 Qbferved, that Mbrian, whom we have a- 
 bove mentioned, has related that this Pifture 
 at JSafil was painted during the fitting of the 
 Council before mentioned, which met m 1491 
 and fat either fifteen, according to fomel or 
 fometh.ng more than feventeen years, accor- 
 ding to other Authors; fothat the Painting 
 now under consideration muft have been done 
 between the years 1430, when the Plague 
 broke out, and 1446, or i 44 8, when the 
 oouncil broke up ; now it is certain that 
 tioi bein was not born till 1498*: nor do 
 ve nnd that he was ever employed on the 
 Minting at BafiJ, even fo much as to retouch 
 
 VVALPOLE's^w^m o/Pa'wthg, Vol. I. P. 12% 
 
 it. 
 
( XX ) 
 
 le 
 
 it. Bugh Klauber, who repaired it 
 1568, is recorded, and it is not probable 
 that, if it ever had been touched upon by 
 Holbein, that fa£l fhould, in his own native 
 City, have been pafled over in filence : On 
 the contrary, it is more likely that an oppor* 
 tunity (hould have been fought to reveal fof* 
 
 From thefe considerations it appears pretty 
 evidently that Holbein has no claim to the 
 Fainting at Bafil : We now proceed, there- 
 fore, to the fecond inquiry, viz. Whether he 
 either defigned or engraved the original Cuts 
 tA the iMAdNEs Mortis, and here it may 
 be nrft neceffary to ftate what reafons there 
 may be for fuppofing them his. 
 
 N icol as Borbonius, a Poet contemporary 
 with Holbein, has addrefled to him an E- 
 pigram, " De Morte picla, a Banjo pi 'fl 'ore 
 notili*, from which it is inferred that he 
 pointed a Dance of Death ; and SandraRT 
 relates that in the year 1627, in a converfa- 
 
 + Kkysler, in his Travels before referred to, Vol. I. 
 P. 171, flaking of the Dance of Death, at Bafil, fays, it i« 
 generally reputed to have been painted by Holbein, who 
 Sad alfo drawn an painted a Death's Dar.ce, and had like 
 «-f- painted, as it were, a Duplicate of this Piece on ano- 
 ther Houfe, but whuhTime has entirely obliterated. How- 
 ever ?dos he, for feveraWeafons the DealVi Dance near the 
 French Church may be pr? fumed not to be Holbein's, but 
 the Wo.kof anoiher Auiit whofe Name was Bock. 
 
 * W a % t o n *s Qbferva:ior.i or. S P 1 N s 1 r , Vol. II. P. Ml 
 as the Note. 
 
 tioa 
 
( xxi ) 
 
 tion with Rubens, at which he was prefent, 
 the Imagine^MoRtis, was ftil'd Holbein's, 
 as will appear from the following Paflage, 
 tnnflafed by Mr. Warton from Joach. 
 Sandrart Academ. Pi ft. Part II. Lib. iii. 
 Cap. 7, P« 24.1 : * 4 I alfo well remember that 
 in the year it 27, when Paul rubens came 
 to Utrecht to vifit Handorst, being efcorted 
 both coming from and returning to Amfter- 
 dam, by feveral Ai tilts ; as we were in the 
 boat, the converfation fell upon Holbein's 
 Book of Cuts repiefentingthe Dance of Death, 
 that Rubens gave them the higheft encomi- 
 ums, adviiing me, who was then a young 
 man, to fet the high* ft value upon them ; in- 
 forming me, at the fame time, that he, in his 
 youth had copied them." Warton's Ob- 
 fervations on Spenser, firrr. Edit. P. 231, in 
 a Notf, where is alfo infvrted a tranflation 
 from the lame Work, P. 238, in the follow- 
 ing words : * But in the Fiih Market there' 
 (at Bafil) • may he \een his (Holbein's) ad- 
 mirable Dance of Pea/ants, where alfo, in the 
 fame public manner, is ihewn his Dance of 
 Death; where, by a variety of figures, it is 
 demon fixated that Death fpaies nenher Popes, 
 Emperors, Princes, &c. as maybe ften hi 
 his inoft excellent wooden Cuts of the fame 
 Work.' 
 
 In Bullart's Academie des Sciences ,Tom. 
 
 II. P. 412, is aPaifage, of which the follow- 
 
 ing is a ra.flation : * Neverthelefs, he (HoL- 
 
 BEin ) has not lent any thing into the world 
 
 C that 
 
( xxii ) 
 
 
 that is not painted with the lafl: degree of per- 
 fection. The inhabitants of Baiil have an 
 excellent witnefs of this in their Town-houfe : 
 It is his Piec of the Dance of Death, which 
 he has reduced into Colours, after having en- 
 graven them very neatly on wood ; an;1 which, 
 appeared fo excellent to the learned Eras- 
 mus, that, after having publifhed hisprailes, 
 he invited Holbein to draw his Pi&ure, in 
 order that he might have the happinefs of be- 
 ing reprefented by fo fkilful a hand.' 
 
 Monf. Pat in, in the Catalogue of Hol- 
 bein's Works, prefixed to his Edition of 
 Erafmus's Prazfe of Folly, in Latin, cloies his 
 Lilt with Words to the following effect : — 
 c He alio engraved feveral things upon wood, 
 among wmch are his Scripture Cuts, and 
 Dance of Death , vulgarly called 7oden Tans; 
 from which that P cture is not very diffe- 
 rent, which was painted from the Life by the 
 hand, as fome think, of Holbein himfelf, 
 and is enclofed by wooden pallifadoes from 
 Grangers in the Cemetery of St. John, at 
 Bafil/ And Prior takes it for fo acknowled- 
 ged a fa£t that Holbein painted the well 
 known Dance of Death, that, in his Ode to the 
 Memory of Colonel George Viliiers, he thus 
 alludes to it : 
 
 " In rain we think that free-wilPd man has power 
 «' To haften or pvotracl th'appointed hour. 
 ** Our Term of Life, depends not on our deed j 
 < f L'efore our Birth our Funeral was decreed, 
 
 "Nor 
 
( XX111. ) 
 
 <• Nor aw'd by F refight, nor mined by Chance, 
 "Imperious Death di reels the Ebon Lance, 
 "Peoples great Henry's Tombs, and leads 
 Holbein's Dance." 
 
 up r 
 
 B\ < great Henry's Tombs/ Henry the 
 Seven'h's Chapel in Weftminfter- Abbey is 
 
 meant. 
 
 To refute by minute Examination the fe- 
 veral errors in the above Citations, would be 
 almoit an end] fs talk ; it is fuffkient here to 
 remark that the PaiTage fiom Borbonius is 
 too general to afcertain, whether he means a 
 Dance of Death, or a fingle Figure - the San. 
 DRARror Ruben's declaration is too far 
 diitant from the time, to be of any great 
 weight; as is alfo Patin's affertio-n, that 
 Holbun a&uafly engraved the Imagines 
 Mortis: And fure!y, if it had been either 
 defigned or engraven by him, Frellon, For 
 who<, , fo many Editions were printed, would 
 not have failed to have mentioned it in feme 
 of them, when we rind that in the Editions of 
 the Scripture Cuts, which he printed, he has 
 mierted a Latin Poem of fome length, and 
 alfo a Greek Epigram, both by Borbonius, 
 with a tunflation of this latter into Latin, 
 all to prove that the Cuts were the work of 
 Holbein. It is further to be obferved (as 
 one reafori for afcribing thefe Cuts to Hol- 
 bein) that a Cut of the Imagines Mortis, 
 which occurs P. 36 of this edition, but the 
 Mark is there purpofely omitted, has to it in 
 the original the letters H L thus enjoined J£, 
 C 2 winch 
 
( xxiv ) 
 
 which Papillon afT rts is one of the Marks 
 of Holbein , and Chriftian de Meckel, Engra- 
 ver to the Elector Palatine, teems To well 
 convinced of their being really at lead de- 
 signed by Holbein* that he has inferred the 
 Dance of Death as reprefen'ed in the Imagines 
 Mortis, among the reft of his Wotks, whch 
 he is pubhlhing ; but the number of Cuts 
 there given, is no more than Forty-fix. 
 
 It were much to be wifhed that Meckel 
 had informed us. from what he ha,: c<yi.d of 
 the Dance of Death ; whether, as he pro ab- 
 ly did, from Drawings ; and if fo, where 
 thofe Drawings were to be found, and on 
 what further evidence he ha I ventured to af- 
 ciibt them to Hotbien, fr, as will prefently 
 appear, there is a very gre. t reafon, at leaif, 
 for doubting the fact, notwithstanding ;hat 
 the four rirft Cuts of the Imagines Mortis oc- 
 cur among the Cuts to the Old Teflament, 
 printed in 1539, and which we are told ex- 
 preilly in a Hoem, and alio in an Epigram, of 
 Borbonius, prefixed to them, are of the hand 
 of Holbein ; but whether by this we a e to uti- 
 derftand, tnat he defigned or engraved them, 
 or both, we are left to feeic. After having 
 thus ventured to queGion in general terms, 
 Holbein s Title to the merit of this Work, it 
 is incumbent on me to (hew on what my 
 doubts are founded, and this I am prepared to 
 do ; for in the Dedication to the Edition of 
 the Imagines Mortis, in 1538, is a PaiTage, 
 of which I here inlert a taithlul tranflat on 
 
 To 
 
( XXV ) 
 
 " To nglurn then to our Cuts of Death, we 
 now ver iufHy regret the Death of him who 
 has here deftgnec] fuch excellent Figures, ex- 
 ceeding as much all t lie exam pies hitherto, as 
 the Painting? of dpetles, or oi Zeuxis, exceed 
 the moderns. For his forrowful Hiftories, 
 with their defcripuons feverely verified, ex- 
 cite fuch admiration to the heholders, that 
 they think the Figures of Death appear as if 
 quite alive, and the Living as if dead. Which 
 makes me think that Death, fearing that this 
 excellent Painter would paint him fo much 
 alive, that he mould no longer he feared as 
 Death, and that, for this reafon, he himfelf 
 would hecome immortal ; for this very caufe 
 haftened fo much his days, that he could not 
 finifh feveral other Cuts already by him tra- 
 ced, and among others that cf the Waggon- 
 er overthrown and hruifed under his over- 
 turned Waggon; the Wheels and Horfes of 
 which are there reprefented fo frightfully, 
 that as much horror is occafioned to view 
 their downfall, as delight to contemplate the 
 liquoriftinefs of one Figure of Death, who is 
 fecretly fucking through a Reed the Wine 
 from the emptied Ca(k : Tp which imperfect 
 Hiftories, as well as to the inimitable Rain- 
 bow, no one has dared to put the laft hand. 
 
 This Dedicaton is prefixed to the Edition 
 °* r 53^» an< * fpeaks of the defigner (by which 
 I conceive, we muft uuderixand both Painter 
 and Engraver, for it i peaks of the Drawings 
 of the unfinifhcd onrs as having been then 
 Cj already 
 
( xxvi ) 
 
 already traced or drawn: and if ib 9 they 
 might furely have been finifhed by the En- 
 graver of the former ones) as then lately 
 dead; now it is well known that Holbein did 
 not die till 1554% and therefore it could not 
 be he : And I would/urther obferve, that the 
 Mark JL is not peculiar to Holbein. Strutt 
 in his Biographical Dictionary of Engravers^ 
 "Vol. 11. P. 86, attributes it to one Hans 
 Z,ederer^ of whom he gives no particulars ; 
 and the Catalogue of Marks and Cyphers of 
 Engravers^ P. 21. Edit. 1730, mentions one 
 Lambrecht Hopfer> a German, but the Age 
 in which he lived is not noticed, who uted 
 as his Mark, fometimes a Vafe of Flowers 
 in the midft of the Letters L H, and fome- 
 times the perpendicular irroke of the L in the 
 fecond ftroke of the H, which is exaftly as 
 it appears in the (Jut before referred to. 
 
 I have only to add, that the Cuts in the 
 prefent Edition, excepting only the firft, 
 (which, reprefenting in the original the Deity 
 in the habit of the Pope, to avoid giving of- 
 fence, it was thought proper to omit, and tc 
 fubftitute in its room one dcfjgned for the 
 purpofe) are engraven, and the veries undei 
 them tranflated from the Latin Edition ol 
 1547 5 and that the additional Cuts, whicl 
 appeared in the French Edition of 1502, (witl 
 
 * WalpoLe's Anecdotes of Fainting, Vol. I. P. 115. 
 
 th 
 
( xxvii ) 
 
 the omiflion only of four Boys, as being fo- 
 reign to this Subject) are here alfo inserted 
 and the Verfes under them tranflated from 
 the French, 
 
 Nov. 3» 1801. 
 
 Tbe EDITOR. 
 
( « ) 
 
 The CREATION of the WORLD. 
 
 1 
 
 So Gad created Man in bis omm lma?e^ in the Tmave 
 of God created be kim : Male and Female created 
 _ be- tbtm* 
 
 Genesis i. 27. 
 
 In the Beginning, Heav'n and Earth, 
 
 And the refunding Sea, 
 God, by his Voice omnipotent, 
 
 From Nothing caus'd to be. 
 
 The human Race, the Image true, 
 
 Of his divineft mind, 
 Both Male and Female he did form 
 
 From lighteft Earth we find. 
 
S I N. 
 
 Becaufe thou haft hrarktned unto the 'voice of thy Wife^ 
 and haft eaten of the Tree of 'which I commanded 
 thee, faying, Thou ft at t not eat of it, l5c^ 
 
 Genesis iii. 17. 
 
 Againft God's Will the direful Fruit 
 
 Of the forbidden Tree 
 The Huiband b> his fooiHh Wife, 
 
 To taite iiiduc'd we fee. 
 
 A grievous Death they both defcrv'd 
 
 for this offence i'o great, 
 And we, the r children, fubject are 
 
 To the lame Laws at irate. 
 
( 6 ) 
 
 DEATH* 
 
 fhe Lord God feni him forth from the Garden of Eden 
 to till the ground from whence he ivas teken* 
 
 Genesis iii. 23. 
 
 Qm » 
 
 Th* Almighty Father did expel 
 Man from hisblefTed Seat $ 
 
 And to faftain his Life decreed 
 By his own proper Sweat. 
 
 Then, (irfr, into the empty World, 
 
 Pale Death an entrance gain'd ; 
 And the fame Pow'r o'er mortal men, 
 Has ever fince maintainM. 
 
( 4 ) 
 
 The CURSE. 
 
 Surfed is the r roim d fir thy Sake % inforranu Jbalt 
 ibou eat of it all the Days of thy life t & c . 
 
 Genesis iii, 17. 
 
 Cu 
 
 Jrsd be the Earth for thy offence, 
 And barren be the ground, 
 And full of toil and labour great, 
 *hy anxious Life be found. 
 
 Till Death thy lifelefs limbs replace 
 J n & n ¥* cold wow womb, 
 Then Dufr, which « the firftthou wcrt, 
 Thou quickly (halt become, * 
 
( s ) 
 
 W«e % Woe y Woe to the inhabitants of the Earth. 
 
 • ^Revelations viii. 13. 
 
 All in luhofe Nofirils was the Breath of Life, of all 
 that ivas in the dry land, died. 
 
 Genesis vii. 22. 
 
 Woe. grievous woe, to all who now 
 
 In this \ ile world abide ; 
 For 1 ;mes await you big with grief, 
 
 And every LI befide. 
 
 Though now to you a plenteous fhare 
 Of Fortune's gifts may fall, 
 
 Pale Death wiit be, or foon or late, 
 A v.fitant to z.l\. 
 
The P O P E. 
 
 Jntil the Death of the High Prleji that Jhall he In 
 thofe Da\s. 
 Joshua xx. 6. 
 And let another take his office. Psalm clx. 3 
 
 Thou who e'ated -<- ith fuccefs, 
 
 Immortal clainrft to be, 
 From men's affairs, in little fpace, 
 
 Thyfelf remov'd (halt fee. 
 
 Though now the great High-Priefi thou art, 
 
 And in Home's fee doft fit, 
 Soon (hall thy office, i n thy o!ace« 
 
 A lucceffor admit. 
 
 D 
 
( 7 ) 
 
 ■ 
 
 The EMPEROR. 
 •Set thine Hou/e in or& ; for thonjhalt die and % 
 h<ve.. Isaiah xxxviii. i. 
 
 Iberejhalt thou die* and there the Chariots oft 
 i Glorxjball be ihejhame of thy Lord's hou/e, 
 h.A ah xxii .8 
 
 Difpoie thy Kingdom's great concerns 
 
 Intruded to thy care, 
 So that to pak to other worlds, 
 
 Thou quickly may'ft prepare. 
 
 Tor when the Time fball come that thou 
 Shait quit this mortal Throne, 
 
 Thy utjuof! glory then (hall be 
 A brokea Car aiche. 
 
( 3 ) 
 
 The KIN G. 
 He that's to-day a King, t(,-m*rrvjjjhall die* 
 EcCLESlASTICUb X. 10. 
 
 To him * ho tm$ Jay fcepties iuays, 
 
 In eoftly pride a JCing, 
 To-itiorrow's Light with baleful fpeed, 
 
 A direful Fate will bring : 
 
 For him who rules o'er nations rich, 
 And powerful kingdoms guides, 
 
 When Death his Cfrice bid* him quit, 
 lso better Fate betides. 
 
 D 2 
 
( 9 ) 
 The CARDINAL. 
 
 fjftncb jifftify the Wicked for reward, and take aw a 
 the rightecufnefs of the righteous fr:m him. 
 
 Isaiah v. 23. 
 
 Woe, grievous woe to you, who now 
 
 T ne impious man carefs ; 
 Exalt theunjuii to heighth of Weahh, 
 
 The virtuous man opprefs 
 
 Who feek t ! e world's fallacious gifts, 
 
 To gain without delay ; 
 And the true path of righteoufnefs 
 
 Dcfire to rake awav^. 
 
( io ) 
 
 The E M P R E S S. 
 
 T/jqfe that njua:k hi Pride he is able to abafa. 
 Daniel iv. 37. 
 
 ^^PpSii 
 
 1pm ^m tl 
 
 p 
 
 u 
 
 ^ 
 
 
 Ye, 2 fo, uho in :Jitt'ilng porno 
 i f • a'.igoi;. ft .1 are plac'u, 
 
 >A Ha* Qralifce /herein vourieives 
 Of b ttcr Death fhalj laiie. 
 
 For, as the grafs bv t avel'e.s 
 
 In trodden on the grou' d 
 So De fh liall tread yon 1 nd-rfoot, 
 ^^And ah, vour io\s co:i foiuid. 
 
 (£* 
 
( II ) 
 
 The Q^U E E N. 
 
 Rife up ye women that are at eafe ; hear m;< voice ye 
 card ej V rfavghtff-s ; give ear unto my Jpcecb. Many 
 dajS and years Jballje be troubled. 
 
 Isaiah xx.xii. 9 & 10. 
 
 Kirher, ye ladies of renown, 
 And matrons rich, repair; 
 
 For Death to you now clearly tells, 
 A mortal tribe ye are. 
 
 When the glad years and "iriptyjoys 
 Of this vain world are pad, 
 
 The pain of Death will fare diflurb 
 Your bodies frail at bit- 
 
< 12 ) 
 
 The BISHOP. 
 
 I will f mile if.* Shepherd, and the Jheep of the fkk 
 Jball be featured abroad. 
 
 Matthew xxvi. 31. Mark xiv 27. 
 
 The Pnftor, void of <ill defence, 
 Mvpou'r, fays Death, fhallovvn; 
 
 By me his Mitre and hi> Staff, 
 Shall to the ground be thrown. 
 
 His Sheep, their Paftor thus remov'd, 
 % By Death's fell pow'raway. 
 Shall be difperfed every one, 
 c J^fOwIiDg'.y^lvcj a prey. 
 
( >3 ) 
 
 f The Elector, cr Prince of the Empire. 
 
 The Prince Ibah be chatbed nv th defoTatim, and the 
 hatch of (he pecpL Jhdl be tioubkd* 
 
 EzEKIEL Vli. 27. 
 
 >**£&>. - 
 
 ■■■■■-I <■:-- <■,'■.',■■£:■■'*,.. <r s Kr& l ^?-?~fr 
 
 r 
 
 
 
 Come, mighty Prince, now quick reCgn, 
 
 Thy peri fhab!e j\s, 
 Th> fS etmg ion , and the reft 
 ■ Of Earth Ycielufne tey&i 
 
 Lo I alone, the pride of Kings 
 ' Aim abeto repref ; ; 
 The fplendid ?omp c of regal fete* 
 
( 14 ) 
 
 The ABBOT. 
 
 He ft all die nv'thout inJlniMion^ and in the great' 
 ncjs of hL folly be Jball go aft' ay. 
 
 Proverbs v. 23. 
 
 This infhnt. wretch, thou fhalt depart, 
 Cohfigtt'd to mou'd'ring drift : 
 
 Becaufe thou know'ft not, only feign'dft, 
 The wiidom of thejuft. 
 
 The abundance of thy folly great, 
 
 Did blindly thee deceive, 
 And made ihee ftek t he finfu! path, 
 
 Whi.h thou cculd'it never leave. 
 
( *5 ) 
 
 The ABBE S'S, 
 
 Wherefore 1 priaifed tU * dead "nbicb are already 
 itcad, more than tht living tx/hicb are jet alive. 
 
 EcCLESfASTES "iV. 2« 
 
 HSSi# tj j 
 
 bit' il\\ 
 
 
 m <% & m?^m^^< 
 
 Better k fet-3 ^ie than live, 
 
 I confb.ntlv have taught; 
 Siuce hum-in life with anxious care, 
 
 Ana various ills is fraught. 
 
 Ungrateful Death me now compels 
 
 i'he 1 ke fad path to tread, 
 With thofe whom jathe (ilent grave, 
 
 The faces fzvert have laid. 
 
The GENTLEMAN, 
 
 What mem Is he that Utteth and J!; all not fee Death ? 
 
 Shall be deliver bis foul from the band of the grave ? 
 
 Psalm lxxxix. 48. 
 
 Whatman is he. however b ave, 
 Of might e,!: pow'r o ?e , 
 
 Who in mis mortal world fhal' 'ive, 
 And Death fhali never ta e ? 
 
 What man i? he who Death < fU'l ^rr, 
 
 Which co^q.ier all cv ":>'3< e t 
 Who h's own Life b f ce of (kfi, 
 
 frgm Death C3i^laibp€ Voivml 
 
k 17 ; 
 
 The C A N O N. 
 
 Be k old \ the hour h cthand, 
 Matthew xxvi. 4$. 
 
 By r owds attended to the choir, 
 Thou now doft bend thy way; 
 
 Comeoa, an^l with fuppliant voice, 
 Thy humblefl homage pay : 
 
 For thee, the fates do loud demand, 
 Ardinftant Deatn does crave; 
 
 A day which no one can retard, 
 Shall force thee to the grave. 
 
The JUDGE. 
 
 / will cut off" the Judge from the midjl thereof* 
 Amos ii. 3. 
 
 
 You who falfe judgment do pronounce, 
 
 For filihv Lucre's fake, 
 From rnidfl of crowds and Judgment Seat, 
 
 I, Death, will quickly take. 
 
 To Fat#^sjpf? Laws ye mnft fubmit, 
 
 Nor ye, alone, contcft 
 7>hat pow'r which every Ton of man 
 
 lias hitherto confeft. (E 
 
The ADVOCATE. > 
 
 A prudent man forefeet b the evil, and hidetb him' 
 Jelf' ; But the jlniple pafs on^ and ' a>e pun :Jbed* 
 
 Proves 3 s xxii. 3. 
 
 T^e cram man the crime perceives, 
 
 The guilty noes protect ; 
 The eaufeof jufl but needy men, 
 
 He ever does reject. 
 
 The poor and guiltlefs are ^pprefs'd 
 
 By Jlljrke*>ain pretence, 
 And Qf>W, than, Laws, is found tc have 
 
 4 greater influence-, 
 
( 20 ) 
 
 The Counsellor, or Magistrate* 
 
 Whfo flopped his errs at the m of the pier, he alfi 
 /hall cry bimjAf, but /hall not be heard. 
 
 Proven bs xxi. 13. 
 
 IBM; Cfe 
 
 ffi^M ^ 1 
 
 Kiwi 
 
 Therfefc and wealth] readily 
 
 To fur. r s ! ich give t r. 
 And fcot n rh° poo«" ai d needy man, 
 His pray'r refute to hear f 
 
 But when themlelviV in the laft hour, 
 
 To Go'ilhall earned cry, 
 Their anxious pniy'rs he (hall rejedt, 
 
 a-,,; H-, 
 
 <(\ A, 
 
 iEa 
 
( 21 ) 
 
 The CURATE, or PREACHER, 
 
 W'oe unto them that call evil gg-.a, and good evit% 
 that put da-kn'fs far b.$rbt y and light to- ;'ark*efs ; 
 that put bittv'fjt fw^ty andf-wect for bitter. 
 
 ISAI 
 
 AH V. 20. 
 
 Woe to you impious hypocrites, 
 
 Who evil goodnefs term ; 
 And evil to be truly ^ood, 
 
 With equal fraud affirm : 
 
 Who dark for light, with faifehood great. 
 And Fight for dark embrace? 
 Bitter for f \ eet who fubftitute, 
 And fweet for bitter place. 
 
( 22 ) 
 
 The PRIEST. 
 
 J myfclf alfo ant a mortal man^ like to all. 
 Wisdom vii. i. 
 
 ^39 
 
 ""■■ ;■ . : '^^5&Bl V '"'--/: .\- 1----}- 
 
 
 
 The holy facraraent, behold, 
 
 Celeftia! gjift, I tjcar. 
 The lick mail, at the hour of death, 
 
 With certain hope to cheer. 
 fr'n I myfelfam mortal too, 
 
 And the fame laws obey, 
 And (hall like him, when time fhall come, 
 
 To Death be made a prey. 
 £3 
 
( *3 ) 
 
 The FRIAR MENDICANT. 
 
 Such as Jit in dnrlnefsy and in the Jbado'W of deatb % 
 b&ing couna in affliction and iron* 
 
 Psalm cvii. ro. 
 
 
 ii — < ^c«Di .-' Asm - ^^ sZ+£> xf 
 
 k \2p ■ -life' ^dfi^yJ-: 
 
 Some men, the world to cir- 
 cumvent 
 
 By f-rouu and f ilfehood try, 
 By feigrrd religion, fin to h de 
 
 From every mortal eye. 
 Of piety ad ardent love, 
 
 They outwa dly profet"; ; 
 But inwardly they are the 
 Sink 
 
 Of a^ voluptuouf/iefs, | 
 
 But v.hntbe end ffiali be at 
 hend, 
 They liice reward fhali 
 have, 
 And Death, by mjF*iad$ > ffcaJl 
 mow down 
 Til- Wickej to ^«e gr.ve»_ 
 
( *+ ) 
 
 The C A N O N E S S. 
 
 J kerf is $ tvay nxjh'nh ftcmc.tb right unto a man\ l>ut 
 the end thereof are the njca.s cf Death \ 
 
 Proverbs xiv. 12. 
 
 Ar. j-rijl, of be to Deata. 
 Why doll thou, p?,!e and en- \ But let this Virgin innoccn f * 
 
 xi >us .;e c 
 AiVred v „,<!. fFright ? 
 S.- ui' glory to Hee cxa arife 
 Fcr \\€Lj ;es lb fhg-.t. 
 
 Go hence, lee fick or aged 
 
 2.-: CM 
 
 T..y fat.J jar. smp'oy j 
 
 Lite's pleafuit-s long tn. 
 
 Fleafure ar.-J j ..y her jocund 
 
 you:h, 
 Should irdcntlj purine; 
 The pioTarcsof the manage 
 
 bed 
 
( u ) 
 
 The OLD W O M A tf. 
 
 tk&b i- f #^^ *£** * bitter life or continual Jl.knefs, 
 
 EcCLESIASTl CUS XXX. Ij 
 
 Lnng has my life mod: irk feme been, 
 O'pprefe'd with care and puui ; 
 
 Ko anxious wifh my bofom fires 
 lilere longer to remain. 
 
 LTv certain judgment does pronounce, 
 
 fetter to die than, live ; 
 IVr'Beath to minds worn out with C2££i 
 
 GlcA ptuct aadieii can g\\^ 
 
( *6 ) 
 
 The PHYSICIAN, 
 
 Pb^Jician, heal thy f elf, 
 Luke iv. 23* 
 
 Difeafes well thou underftand'ft, 
 
 And cures canft well apply, 
 Which to the tick, in time of need, 
 
 Will welcome health fupply. 
 
 » 
 But while, O dull and ftupid wretch, 
 
 Thou others fates doth iray, 
 *f hou'rt ignorant what fell difeafe 
 
 Shall hurrv thee awav. 
 
f 27 ) 
 
 The ASTROLOGER. 
 
 Knovjeft tkon it, becaufe thou waft then horn ? cr be* 
 cauje the number of thy days is g, eat ? 
 
 Job xxxviii. 21. 
 
 Thou, by contemplating a 
 Sphere 
 Which Her>v'ns bright face 
 doth ftcw 
 Events which flj'all to others 
 chancy 
 Prete deft to foreknow. 
 
 Teil me, if rhou of Fates to 
 co-nr, 
 
 When to the Tomb the hand 
 of Death 
 Shall urge thee to depart ? 
 
 Eehold the fphere, whkh to 
 
 thy view 
 My right hand now does 
 
 held, 
 By that the fate which thpu 
 
 OiJi find, 
 
The MISER. 
 
 Thou Fool, tbh Nigh thy Souljball h € required *f 
 thee : Then <whcfe jball tbo/e things he <wbicb thou 
 bojt prev'ukd, 
 
 luKE Xli. 20. 
 
 This night fliall Death, with iron hand, 
 
 I hee, gnping wretch, fubdue ; 
 nd la the narrow grave entomb'd. 
 To-morrow thee ihall view. 
 
 Therefore, when thou, of LifedeprivM. 
 
 Shalt far from hence be gone, 
 ^h-tfurcefsorihall thy vaft heaps 
 
 Vt eiujlefs riches own ? 
 
( 29 ) 
 The M E R C H A N T. 
 
 he vetting cftreafwe* by a lying tongue, is a vanity 
 tofjed to and fro of them tbatjeek Death. 
 
 Proverbs xxi 6. 
 
 A foo iffa part he fine puriues. 
 
 Who wealth bv fraud and lies 
 T'accumuiate, and niun'rous goods 
 
 To gain unjuftlv tries. 
 
 For De.th entangled inthefnare, 
 To feize him fhail not fail; 
 
 And tbcfe- is actions mt;ft nnj ft 7 
 b&UJ cauie him io bewail. 
 
( 3° ) 
 The SHIPWRECK. 
 
 But they that will be rich, fall irto I rotation, and 
 afnare, ana into many foo^ijh and hurtful lujis 
 twbicb drown men in deftruttion and p rdzttm. 
 
 I Timothy vi. q, 
 
 That worldly goods they may procure, 
 And wealth immenie obtain, 
 
 Their b re a ft s men hourly wiil ex^ofe, 
 Temptation* to fuftain. 
 
 But men whom dangers thus furround, 
 
 Fortune compels to bend 
 Their footrteps to th fe beaten patns 
 
 Which to deftructioutead. 
 
 F 
 
The KNIGHT, or SOLDIER. 
 
 in a moment (hall they die, and the people Jhall he 
 tro-ibled at midnight \ and paf anvay : and th$ 
 jnighty jkall be taken aivay without hand. 
 
 Job. xxxiv. 20. 
 
 Againft the man who wars 
 excites, 
 And does mild peace de» 
 fpife, 
 ^Feace, that to all great 
 bleliings brings) 
 The people ftiall artfe : 
 
 To courage only they (hall 
 fcruft, 
 This Tyrant fierce to 
 
 And f I) he /hall, but by a 
 ft oke 
 Nu huma.i hand /hall aim* 
 
 For him who, to opp efs 
 
 mankind, 
 Sh.ll mightv $rms employ, 
 Refifti is Death fhill fud- 
 deni;- 
 I By an 11 fate deftroy. 
 
( 3* ) 
 
 The COUNT. 
 
 for nuben be Jleth. he (bill carry nothing away v His 
 glory Jb all not dtfcend after him. 
 
 Psalm xlix. 17. 
 
 None of rtiofe honors wh'ch the great 
 
 And mighty now attend, 
 When Death (hall caft them from their feat, 
 
 §hall to the grave deicend. 
 
 No Enfigns of a glorious race, 
 
 They thither (hall convey 
 Nor titles higtL y for in the grave, 
 
 Th*»vnou0ht hut A 11ft (hall he. (F * 
 
( 33 ) 
 
 The O L D MA N. 
 
 My breath is corrupt* my tktyi aie txtincl, the grave: 
 are ready far me* 
 
 Job xvii. i. 
 
 
 Exhaufled ilrength my fee- 
 ble N T erves 
 No longer now coes brace, 
 And, like a river's rapid 
 ftreim, 
 My Life flows out apace. 
 
 The time, which no one «:an 
 recall, 
 How frrift a flight has 
 ta'en ! 
 
 And r othing but the fileat 
 Toa.b 
 For me does now remain. 
 
 Tir'd of the ills of a long 
 life, 
 And ft k of all rs cares, 
 For lpeed> Death I now ad- 
 <?ref* 
 To H'av'n my anxious 
 Praif'rs. 
 
( 34 ) 
 
 The COUNTpSS. 
 
 *Zbey fpend their days in wealth, and in a moment g* 
 
 donjon to the gra r vc% 
 
 Jop xxi. i3» 
 
 In num'rous Joys their rap>d 
 life 
 The thnughtlefs Virgins 
 wafte, 
 And ev'ry kind of pleafure 
 feek 
 With eagemefs to tafte. 
 
 A vacant life, full fraught 
 with blifs, 
 They earnestly dcflre. 
 
 But in the grave they fliali 
 be laid, 
 By Dc ;h'« all-piercing 
 I Dart, 
 
 From cares and (orrow they I Where he their pleaiuf?s ex- 
 are free, quifite 
 Ko thought their minds to 1 Shail into grief convert. 
 
 tire. ■ (ft i 
 
( 35 ) 
 
 The NEW MARRIED COUPLE. 
 
 the Lord dofo to me, and more alfo % if aught hut 
 Death part thee and me. 
 
 Ruth i, 17. 
 
 This is true Love, and this alone, 
 Which two in one conjoins, 
 
 And in affections ftrongeft ' ands 
 And mutual friendihip binds. 
 
 This union fhall, alas f endure 
 By much too fhort a time ; 
 
 One Death fevere can two divide, 
 Whom bands of wedlock ioin. 
 
( 36 ) 
 The DUTCHESS. 
 
 fhou {halt not comedown of that Bed on which the* 
 art gone up, butjhahjwely dit, 
 
 2 Kings i. 16. 
 
 From the foft bed. O youthful Maid, 
 Whereon tin limbs now lie, 
 
 Permiulon ever to arifc, 
 Tne cruel fates deny : 
 
 For firft fhall Death thy lifelefs limbs 
 
 Subdue without rcmoi 1 , 
 And his fell fey he (hall to the grave 
 /"^..r.-.r. t-hu hi*- uthlff* Cnrfe. 
 
( 37 ) 
 
 The PORTER. 
 
 Come unto me all ye that la Sour, and are heavy ladez, 
 and 1 nuill give you reft. 
 
 Matthew xi. 28 
 
 Hither advance, ye weary throng, 
 
 And quick my fteps attend, 
 Who under loads of fo great weight, 
 
 With weary (houluers bend. 
 
 Traffick and gain your anxious thoughts 
 
 Did long enough pofsefs, 
 Your bre^.ft the cares which thefc produce^ 
 
 No lonffpr fiiall Hiffrpfc _^ 
 
( 3* ) 
 The PEASANT. 
 
 In the Sweat of thy face /hJt thou eat Bread, 
 Genesis Hi. ig. 
 
 Bread for thyfelf, by labour great, 
 
 Thou (halt thyfelf obtain ; 
 And from the ground, without great toil, 
 
 No fuftenance fhalt g^in. 
 
 After long ufe of things below, 
 
 And num'rous laboui s paft, 
 Pale Death to all thy cares and toils 
 
 Shall Dut an end at laft. 
 
( 39 ) 
 The CHILD. 
 
 Man that is lorn cf a nx.oman t is cfffw days and fi 
 of trouble. He ccmeth forth like aJZcivet, and 
 cut dcnbrt, tie Jleetb as a Jhadonu^ and continue 
 not. 
 
 Job xiv. i. 
 
 
 Man, who conceived in the dark womb. 
 
 Into the world s brought, 
 Is born to times with mifery, 
 
 And various evil fraught. 
 
 And as the flow'r foon fades and die% 
 
 However fair it be, 
 So finks he alfo to the grave, 
 And like a fhade does flee. 
 
I 4° J 
 
 The S WIS S SCJLD I E R. 
 Vhen aftrmg man a.med keepeth his palace, his %oocls 
 are in peace But nvhen a Jironge^ that? he shall 
 come upon him ', and overcome htm, he t&kztb from 
 him all his Armour nuherein he. truftea 4 , and divi- 
 aeth bis Spoils, 
 
 Luke xi. 21, 22. 
 
 Undaunted r.nd feoure in Arms, 
 While ftreagth and life remain, 
 
 The brave his manfions, and his weajth 
 In fafety fliali maintain. 
 
 But Dtath with greater force fhall wag« 
 
 Againft him war ere long, 
 And, forthe grave, dial) caufe him quit 
 
 Hts Poft, no longer ftron£. 
 
( 4* ) 
 
 The GAMESTER. 
 
 For <&bat is a man profited, if he shall gain the <wbc?t 
 world, and lofe his own foul? 
 
 Matthew xvi. 26. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 If thedeflructive Art of Dice 
 Could wealth immenfe infure, 
 
 Or man the world by Dice could gain, 
 What good would it procure? 
 
 His foul this practice will deftroy, 
 
 Entangled in its fnare, 
 A lofs which no art, fraud, or chance, 
 
 is abie to repair. 
 
( 4* ) 
 
 The DRUNKARDS. 
 
 And be not drunk 'with Wine, wherein is exce/s, 
 i Ephesians v. 18. 
 
 wVith Wine's excefsyuir fouls to drench. 
 
 Ye mortal throng, brbear ; 
 For luxury of every kinl, 
 
 And raging luft is thee. 
 Left Death aflail you urorepar'd, 
 
 Opprefs'd with deep jnd wine, 
 And, in a vomit foul, your fouls 
 
 Compel you to re%n. 
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( 43 > 
 
 The TOOL. 
 
 He goeth after ber as an Ox goetb to the /laughter^ 
 as a Boo; to the correclion cftbe Stocks. 
 
 Proverbs vii. 22. 
 
 No Life fo Iweet as to bemad, 
 And no one thing to krow ; 
 
 But this is farremov'd fom heft,* 
 As mad men's a&ionsftiew. 
 
 Secure of Fate the witle* fool 
 Like fportive Lambkins r eads; 
 
 And knows not that his evV ftep 
 To Death's fad Portals leao 
 
( 44 ) 
 
 The THIE F. 
 
 OLor<? 9 lamopprefled, undertake Jbr m*. 
 
 Isaiah xxxviii, 14, 
 
 Men. to deft-o. *tth fell intent, 
 The T ief bv night does rife ; 
 
 Bur nox^ to f oil an a ed Dame, 
 Cf a full ba/kettiies. 
 
 I fufFer wrong, fhe cries, and God 
 
 Sends D arh to her relief, 
 Who. b the angman's certain gripe^ 
 
 Strangles the ?reei!y thief* 
 
( 45 ) 
 
 The BLIND MAN. 
 
 If thi blind lead the hlin^ ktb shall fall into the 
 Ditch. 
 
 Matthew* xv. 14, 
 
 The blind man to a guide as blind, 
 
 Himfelf does here commit, 
 Both wanting fight, they here defcemi 
 
 Into the fatal pit. 
 
 For, while the man does vainly hope 
 
 Surcefs his fteps atf ends, . 
 Into the darknefs of the grave 
 
C 46 ) 
 
 Tfie CHARIOTEER. 
 
 And he funk do-iun tn bis Chariot* 
 2K1NGS ix 24.. 
 
 
 
 
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 TmtwJg* 
 
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 My 
 
 The Charioteer, by horfes fierce, 
 
 [s rapid uhirlM along; 
 The reins they from; while f -ar of Dentil 
 
 Contends with reafo'fi fkrorij*. 
 
 The rap d whe -1 at length toi n off, 
 
 The A e over :o. 3 ; 
 While, frooi iht - Ck h thc pieciouswine 
 
 1 1. copious torrents flov s. 
 
( 47 ) 
 
 - Ti e BEGGAR. 
 
 O wretched man that 1 am, nvbo shall deliver me 
 from the Body of this Death ? 
 
 Romans vii, 24. 
 
 He that from hence to be reJeas'd, 
 With Chriftto live, defires, 
 
 Befpifes Death, and to the Stars 
 In words like thefe afpires : 
 
 Who from this mortal Body will 
 Me, wretched man ! releafe ; 
 And match rne, wretch I from this vih 
 
( 4* ) 
 
 The HUSBAND. 
 What tahth away the Life f Even Death* 
 
 EcCLESl AST1CUS XXXI. 2J*. 
 
 Remember that Death will not be long in co* 
 thing* 
 
 ECCLESI ASTICUS XIV. 12. 
 
 The tyrant Death G hulband fond, 
 
 The worft of all its foe>, 
 Is to our 1 f e and its (hort courfe, 
 
 With c nftant fteps purfues. 
 Reflect then in thy prime f life, 
 
 (Life's tranfitory day) 
 That to thy end it t ee condufts 
 
 By gi adual decay 
 
( 49 ) 
 
 The WIF E. 
 
 Of the Womnn came the beginning cf ' Jin 9 and 
 through her we all die, 
 
 E^ciesiasticus xxy, 4* 
 
 From Eve, the mother of mankind, 
 
 Our parent Adam's wife, 
 Sprang fin, ad thencefell Death arofe, 
 
 The enemy of life. 
 
 Let not. howe'er, thy tender mind 
 
 To gi'ef a vj&irn fail, 
 ti Ttaih ihouM thee to quit this world, 
 
( 5* 1 
 
 The LAST JUDGMENT. 
 
 iFeJbatl all Jland before the Judgnrnt Heat of 
 
 Chrl/I. 
 
 Romans xiv. 10. 
 
 Watch therefore, for - km v ot what hour 
 
 your Lord doth come. 
 
 Ma i t hew kxiv. 42. 
 
 For all his anions to aci onnt 
 By Cod'a cxpttfi com- 
 
 manr, 
 Each man before the Judg- 
 ment Seat 
 Of the juft Judge fholl 
 ftand. 
 
 Ler us be therefore vigilant, 
 Left, when that time fhali 
 
 G^d, for 'ur actions, fhoul* 
 pronounce 
 A juft but angry doom. 
 
 And fmce when that hour 
 mail arrive, 
 No mortal c n dp lare ; 
 For its approach ti : e piou*. 
 m2n 
 Wil* watch and well pre- 
 pare. 
 
( 5i ) 
 
 JThatfoever thou takeft In hand, rememhr the 
 tnd, and ihoujhalt never do amifs. 
 
 EcCLESIASTieUS 
 
 vu 
 
 36- 
 
 Spotlefs 60 live as thou de- 
 
 fir'ir, 
 
 And free fjom 'v'ry vice, 
 
 Let xhis memorial conftanrly 
 
 Be plac'd before thine 
 
 eyes. 
 
 2for it v ill often thee re- 
 mind, 
 That i^eath will icon ar- 
 
 And frequent thought tc all 
 thy acts 
 Wii) a due caution give. 
 
 V uchfafe, O Chrift, with 
 hea. t fin cere, 
 
 That we thy paths may 
 tse-d, 
 And that all the heav\Jy 
 path 
 1 May thus be open made. 
 
* by one Man Sin entered into the World, 
 and peati by Sip ; and fa Death paffed 
 upon all Mn, fir that all have Jianed. 
 
 Romans v. iz* 
 
 FINIS. 
 
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