Note 11 — PREFACE.

Mr. Warton, in his Observations on Spenser, first Edit. P. 230, in a Note, says, that Macaber wrote a Description in Verse of a Procession, painted on the Walls of St. Innocent’s Cloister, at Paris, called the Dance of Death; so that in this Passage Mr. Warton must be supposed to understand that Macaber’s Verses were written posterior to that Painting. He further informs us, in the Additions and Corrections to the second Volume of his History of Poetry, that the earliest complete French Translation of these Verses was printed in 1499, but that a less perfect Edition had been before published in 1486, and that the French Rhymes in this last are said to be by Michel Marot. A Copy in French of La grande Danse de Macabre des Hommes et des Femmes, printed in 4to. at Troyes, for John Garnier, but without a Date, I have seen; and find from the Verses under each Cut, that the Characters are the Pope, Emperor, Cardinal, King, Legate, Duke, Patriarch, Constable, Archbishop, Knight, Bishop, Squire, Abbot, Bailiff, Astrologer, Burgess, Canon, Merchant, School-Master, Man of Arms, Chartreux, Serjeant, Monk, Usurer, Physician, Lover, Advocate, Minstrel, Curate, Labourer, Proctor, Gaoler, Pilgrim, Shepherd, Cordelier, Child, Clerk, Hermit, Adventurer, Fool. The Women are the Queen, Duchess, Regent’s Wife, Knight’s Wife, Abbess, Squire’s Wife, Shepherdess, Cripple, Burgess’s Wife, Widow, Merchant’s Wife, Bailiff’s Wife, Young Wife, Dainty Dame, Female Philosopher, New-married Wife, Woman with Child, Old Maid, Female Cordelier, Chambermaid, Intelligence-Woman, Hostess, Nurse, Prioress, Damsel, Country Girl, Old Chambermaid, Huckstress, Strumpet, Nurse for Lying-in Women, Young Girl, Religious, Sorceress, Bigot, Fool.