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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 : 2. 1816

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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.