field of the piece), "new money of Adrian, the pope of fools." The inscription on the other side of the token is one frequently repeated on these leaden medals, STVLTORV [M] · INFINITVS · EST · NVMERVS, "the number of fools is infinite." In the field we see Mother Folly holding up her bauble, and before her a grotesque figure in a cardinal's hat, apparently kneeling to her. It is rather surprising that we find so few allusions to these burlesque societies in the various classes of pictorial records from which the subject of these chapters has been illustrated; but we have evidence that they were not altogether overlooked. Until the latter end of the last century, the misereres of the church of St. Spire, at Corbeil, near Paris, were remarkable for the singular carvings with which they were decorated, and which have since been destroyed, but fortunately they were engraved by Millin. One of them, copied in our cut No. 131, evidently represents the bishop of fools conferring his blessing; the fool's bauble occupies the place of the pastoral staff. [72] "Monnaies inconnues des Evêques des Innocens, des Fous," &c., Paris, 1837. [Illustration: _No. 131. The Bishop of Fools._] CHAPTER XIII. THE DANCE OF DEATH.--THE PAINTINGS IN THE CHURCH OF LA CHAISE DIEU.--THE REIGN OF FOLLY.--SEBASTIAN BRANDT; THE "SHIP OF FOOLS."--DISTURBERS OF CHURCH SERVICE.--TROUBLESOME BEGGARS.--GEILER'S SERMONS.--BADIUS, AND HIS SHIP OF FOOLISH WOMEN.--THE PLEASURES OF SMELL.--ERASMUS; THE "PRAISE OF FOLLY."