The english dance of death, from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson. With metrical illus. by the author of "Doctor Syntaz" (1903)
Combe, William, 1742-1823, Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 (illus.) · New York Appleton · leaf 188
R Ancestry. * And if LORD EDWARD loves you true, * As all young men will say they do, He will with tender patience wait Till I am borne through yonder gate. Old as I am, twill not be long 1 Before Time chaunts my funral song • * And I have told you, oer and oer, * No Fortune, till I am no more.… … ENGLISH DANCE OF DEATH 143 To guard thy Love from lavish doing, Nor let a Spendthrift prove thy ruin. No Lord shall thy fair Dowry claim * Unless he takes the GILTSPUR name:4 A name, for many a centry past * To honour known;—and it shall last * If parchment deed, with seals set to it, * Or Will and…
Dance of death
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