[1] Iliad, and after him Virgil, Æn. vi. 278. [2] Iliad IX. On an ancient gem likewise in Ficoroni's Gemmæ Antiquæ Litteratæ, Tab. viii. No. 1, a human scull typifies mortality, and a butterfly immortality. [3] Lib. ii. 78. [4] Diarium, p. 212. [5] Lib. xiii. l. 474. [6] Epist. xxiv. [7] Apolog. p. 506, 507. edit. Delph. 4to. [8] Lib. iii. [9] Leg. Antiq. iii. 84. [10] Folio clxxxvii. [11] Folio ccxvii. [12] Bibl. Reg. 20 B. xiv. and Harl. MS. 4657. [13] Contest. [14] Q. Cowick in Yorkshire? [15] Leader. [16] Glee. [17] Called. [18] A name borrowed from Merwyn, Abbess of Ramsey, temp. Reg. Edgari. [19] Took. [20] Leafy. [21] Place. [22] Went. [23] Places. [24] A falsehood. [25] Whoever may be desirous of inspecting other authorities for the story, may consult Vincent of Beauvais Speculum Historiale, lib. xxv. cap. 10; Krantz Saxonia, lib. iv.; Trithemii Chron. Monast. Hirsaugensis; Chronicon Engelhusii ap. Leibnitz. Script. Brunsvicens. II. 1082; Chronicon. S. Ægidii, ap. Leibnitz. iii. 582; Cantipranus de apibus; & Cæsarius Heisterbach. de Miraculis; in whose works several _veracious_ and amusing stories of other instances of divine vengeance against dancing in general may be found. The most entertaining of all the dancing stories is that of the friar and the boy, as it occurs among the popular penny histories, of which, in one edition at least, it is, undoubtedly, the very best. [26] Lib. i. Eleg. iii. [27] Æn. lib. vi. l. 44. [28] Millin. Magaz. Encycl. 1813, tom. i. p. 200. [29] Gori Mus. Florentin. tom. i. pl. 91, No. 3. [30] Hist. Engl. Poetry, vol. ii. p. 43, edit. 8vo. and Carpentier. Suppl. ad Ducang. v. Machabæorum chorea. [31] Id. ii. 364. [32] Hist. des Ducs des Bourgogne, tom. v. p. 1821. [33] Hist. de René d'Anjou, tom. i. p. 54. [34] Dulaure. Hist. Physique, &c. de Paris, 1821, tom. ii. p. 552. [35] Recherches sur les Danses des Morts. Dijon et Paris, 1826, 8vo. p. xxxiv. et seq. [36] Mercure de France, Sept. 1742. Carpentier. Suppl. ad Ducang. v. Machabæorum chorea. [37] Bibl. Reg. 8 B. vi. Lansd. MS. 397. [38] Madrid. 1779, 8vo. p. 179. [39] Bibl. Med. et Inf. Ætat. tom. v. p. 1. [40] Recherches sur les Danses de Mort, pp. 79 80. [41] Passim. [42] Modern edition of the Danse Macabre. [43] Journal de Charles VII. [44] Lansd. MS. No. 397--20. [45] Peignot Recherches, p. 109. [46] Mélange d'une Grande Bibliothèque, tom. vii. p. 22. [47] Bibl. Instruc. No. 3109. [48] Catal. La Valliere No. 2736--22. [49] Vasari vite de Pittori, tom. i. p. 183, edit. 1568, 4to. [50] Baldinucci Disegno, ii. 65. [51] Morona Pisa Illustrata, i. 359. [52] Du Breul Antiq. de Paris, 1612, 4to. p. 834, where the verses that accompany the sculpture are given. See likewise Sandrart Acad. Picturæ, p. 101. [53] Peignot Recherches, xxxvii-xxxix. [54] Urtisii epitom. Hist. Basiliensis, 1522, 8vo. [55] Peignot Recherches, xxvi-xxix. [56] Travels, i. 376. [57] Travels, i. 138, edit. 4to.