For an account of Lydgate’s _Dance of Macaber_, and indeed for his version in English, we should do well to consult the remarks by Francis Douce, in Wenceslaus Hollar’s _Dance of Death_, published about the year 1790, and more particularly the remarks in Douce’s Dissertation, edition 1833. _Plate 9_ ~Stultifera Nauis.~ ~Narragonice profectionis nunquam satis laudata Nauis: per Sebastianũ Brant: vernaculo vulgarique sermone & rhythmo / pro cũctorum mortaliũ fatuitatis semitas effugere cupiẽtiũ directione / speculo / cõmodoque & salute: proque inertis ignaue̦que stultitie̦ perpetua infamia / execratione / & confutatione / nuper fabricata: Atque iam pridem per Iacobum Locher / cognomẽto Philomusum: Sue̦uũ: in latinũ traducta eloquiũ: & per Sebastianũ Brant denuo seduloque reuisa / & noua quadã exactaque emendatõe elimata: atque superadditis quibusdã nouis / admirãdisque fatuorum generibus suppleta: fœlĩci exorditur principio.~ _~.1497. Nihil sine causa. Io.de.Olpe.~_ [Illustration: _Title of Brandts Stultifera Navis edition, 1497._] The earliest known edition of _La Danse Macabre_, originally composed in German, is dated at Paris, 1484, but before the completion of the century there were seven or eight other reprints, some with alterations and others with additions. It was a most popular work, issued at least eight or ten times during the sixteenth century, and still exciting interest.[44] At p. 39 may be seen copies of some of the devices as used by Verard.