Death
“his court, and there the antic sits, etc.—Keeps,”
RICHARD II., iii. 2. 162.
“Some part of this fine description might have been suggested
from the seventh print in the Imagines Mortis, a celebrated
series of wooden cuts which have been improperly attributed to Holbein. It is probable
that Shakespeare might have seen some spurious edition of this work; for the great
scarcity of the original in this country in former times is apparent, when Hollar could
not procure the use of it for his copy of the
Dance of Death”
(DOUCE)
.