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The English dance of death / from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson. With metrical illustrations, by the author of "Doctor syntax". London : Ackermann's Repository of Art, 1816

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Illustration Time & Death their Thoughts impart / On Works of Learning, & of Art.

PDF The Antiquary's Last Will & Testament.

Illustration Fungus, at length, contrives to get / Death's Dart into his Cabinet.

PDF The Last Chase.

Illustration Such mortal Sport the Chase attends: / At Break-Neck Hill, the Hunting Ends.

PDF The Statesman.

Illustration Not all the Statesman's power or art / Can turn aside Death's certain Dart.

PDF Tom Higgins.

Illustration His blood is stopp'd in eviry vein. / He ne'er will eat or drink again.

PDF The Shipwreck.

Illustration The Danger of the Ocean Oer. / Death Wrecks the Sailors on the Shore.

PDF The Virago.

Illustration Her tongue & temper to subdue: / Can only be perform'd by you.

PDF 68 The Glutton.

Illustration What do these savry meats delight you? / Begone, & stay, till I invite you.

PDF The Recruit.

Illustration I list you, and you'll soon be found, / One of my regiment unter ground.

PDF The Maiden Ladies.

Illustration Be not alarm'd: _I'm only come / To choose a wife, & light her home.

PDF The Quack Doctor.

Illustration I have a secret art to cure / Each malady which men endure.

PDF The Sot.

Illustration Drunk and alive, the man was thine, / But dead & drunk, why, _ he is mine.

PDF 106 The Honey Moon.

Illustration When the old fool has drank his wine / And gone to rest, I will be thine.

PDF The Hunter unkennelled.

Illustration Yes. Nimrod, you may look aghast: / I have unkennel'd you at least.

PDF The Good Man, Death, and the Doctor.

Illustration No scene so blest in Virtue's eyes, / As when the Man of Virtue dies.

PDF Death and the Portrait.

Illustration Nature and Truth are not at strife: / Death draws his pictures after Life.

PDF The Genealogist.

Illustration On that illumin'd roll of Fame, / Death waits to write your Lordship's name.

PDF The Catchpole.

Illustration The Catchpole need not fear a jail, / The Undertaker is his Bail.

PDF The Insurance Office.

Illustration Insure his Life. _ But to your sorrow, / You'll pay a good, round Sum tomorrow.

PDF 168 The Schoolmaster.

Illustration Death, with his dart proceeds to flog / Th'astonish'd, flogging Pedagogue.

PDF The Coquette.

Illustration I'll lead you to the splendid Croud: / But your next dress will be a shroud.

PDF Time & Death, and Goody Barton.

Illustration On with your dead: & I'll contrive / To bury this old Fool alive.

PDF The Undertaker & the Quack.

Illustration The Doctor's sick'ning toil to close. / "Recipe Coffin", is the Dose.

PDF 190 The Masquerade.

Illustration Such is the power, & such the strife. / That ends the Masquerade of Life.

PDF The Death Blow.

Illustration How vain are all your triumphs past, / For this Set-To will be your last.

PDF The Vision of Skulls.

Illustration As it appears, though dead so long, / Each scull is found to have a tongue.

PDF The Porter's Chair.

Illustration What watchful Care the Portal keeps! / A Porter He, who never sleeps.

PDF 238 The Pantomime.

Illustration Behold the signal of Old Time: / That bids you close your Pantomime.

PDF 245 The Horse Race.

245 Illustration This is a very break Neck Heat: / And Squire Jockey you are beat.

PDF The Dram Shop.

Illustration Some find their Death by Sword & Bullet; / And some by fluids down the Gullet.

PDF 258 The Gaming Table.

Illustration Whene'er Death plays. He's sure to win: / He'll take each knowing Gamester in.

PDF 264 The Battle.

Illustration Such is, alas, the common Story / Of Blood & Wounds, of Death & Glory.

PDF 272 The Wedding.

Illustration Plutus commands, & to the Arms / Of doting Age, She yeilds her Charms.

PDF The Skaters.

Illustration On the frail Ice, the whirring Skate / Becomes an Instrument of Fate.

PDF The Duel.

Illustration Here Honour, as it is the mode, / To Death consigns the wighty load.

PDF The Bishop and Death.

Illustration Though I may yield my forfeit breath, / The word of Life defies thee, Death.

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Illustration Death smiles & seems his dart to hide; / When He beholds his Suicide.

PDF 18 Champagne, Sherry, and Water Gruel.

Illustration Have patience Death, nor be so cruel / To spoil the Sickman's Watergruel.

PDF The Nursery.

Illustration Death rocks the cradle: Life is o'er: / The Infant sleeps, to wake no more.

PDF 38 The Astronomer.

Illustration Why I was looking at the Bear: / But what strange planet see I there!

PDF The Father of the Family.

IllustrationThe Doctors say that you're my booty: / Come Sir, for I must do my duty.

PDF The Fall of Four in Hand.

Illustration Death can contrive to strike his blows / By overturns and overthrows.

PDF 62 Gaffer Goodman.

Illustration Another Wiff and all is o'er, / And Gaffer Goodman is no more.

PDF 70 The Urchin Robbers.

Illustration O the unconscionable Brute! / To murder for a little Fruit!

PDF Death turned Pilot.

Illustration The fatal Pilot grasps the Helm, / And steers the Crew to Pluto's Realm.

PDF The winding up of the Clock.

Illustration "No one but me shall set my Clock." / He set in & behold the Shock.

PDF The Family of Children.

Illustration 'Twere well to spare me two or three / Out of your num'rous Family.

PDF Death's Door.

Illustration In this world all our Comfort's o'er; / So let us find it at Death's Door.

PDF 106 The Fire.

Illustration Let him go on, with all his rigs; / We're safe, He'll only burn the pigs.

PDF 116 The Miser's End.

Illustration Old Dad, at length, is grown so kind; / He dies, & leaves his wealth behind.

PDF 126 Gretna Green.

Illustration Love, spread your wings; I'll not outstrip'em: / Though Death's behind, He will not clip'em.

PDF The Waltz.

Illustration By Gar, that horrid, strange Buffoon / Cannot keep time to any tune.

PDF 144 Maternal Tenderness.

Illustration Thus it appears a pond of Water / May prove an Instrument of Slaughter.

PDF 152 The Kitchen.

Illustration Thou Slave to ev'ry gorging Glutton, / I'll spit thee like a Leg of Mutton.

PDF 158 The Gig.

Illustration Away they go in chaise & one, / Or to undo or be undone.

PDF The Mausoleum.

Illustration Your crabbed Dad is just gone home: / And now we look for joys to come.

PDF The Courtship.

Illustration It is in vain that you decide: / Death claims you as his destin'd Bride.

PDF The Toastmaster.

Illustration The End of Life, the Chairman cries: / 'Tis drank, & many a Toper dies.

PDF 204 The Careless and the Careful.

Illustration The Careful and the Careless led / To join the living and the dead.

PDF 210 The Law overthrown.

Illustration The Serjeant's tongue will cease to brawl / In every Court of yonder Hall.

PDF 222 The Fortune Teller.

Illustration All Fates he vow'd to him were known, / And yet He could not tell his own.

PDF 230 The Lottery Office.

Illustration To trust to Fortune's smiles alone, / Is the High Road to be undone.

PDF 236 The Prisoner Discharged.

Illustration Death, without either Bribe ot Fee, / Can set the hopeless Pris'ner free.

PDF 294 The Gallant's Downfall.

294 Illustration The Assailant does not feel a wound; / But yet he dies, for he is drown'd.

PDF 250 The Church Yard Debate.

Illustration Tis strange but true, in this world's Strife, / That Death affords the means of Life.

PDF 256 The Good and Great.

Illustration What heart-felt Tears bedew the Dust / Of Him whose ev'ry thought was just.

PDF The Next Heir.

Illustration Tis not the time to meet one's fate, / Just ent'ring on a large Estate.

PDF 266 The Chamber War.

Illustration When Doctors three the Labour share, / No wonder Death attends them there.

PDF Death and the Antiquaries.

Illustration Death, jealous of his rights, stands sentry / Over this strange, burglarious entry.

PDF The Dainty Dish.

Illustration This fine, hot, feast's a preparation / To some, for Death's last, cold, Collation.

PDF The Last Stage.

Illustration From Hour to Hour, from Youth to Age, / Life's Trav'ller takes th'uncertain Stage.

PDF 290 Time, Death, and Eternity. A Night Thought.

Illustration The song nor bursts beyond the bounds of time, / And Immortality concludes the Rhyme.