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 mid Senti?nents. 337 have been fix o'clock. The favourite amufement was dancing. A family party at the dance is reprefented in our cut No. 2 53, from M. Barrois' manufcript of the " Comte d'Artois." The numerous dances which were now in vogue feem to have completely eclipfed the old carole, or round dance, and the latter word, which was a more general one, had difplaced No. 253. A Da the former. The couple here on their legs are fuppofed to be performing one of the new and tafteful fafliionable dances, which were much more lively than thofe of the earlier period 5 fome of them were fo much fo as to fcandalife greatly the fage moralifts of the time. The after-dinner amulements were refumed after fupper ; and a practice had now efla- blilhed itfelf of prolonging the day's enjoyment to a late hour, and taking a fecond, or, as it was called, a rere-fupper {arricre fouper), which was called the banquet in France, where the three great meals were now the dinner, the fupper, and the banquet, and dinner appears to have been confidered as the leafl meal of the three. It was thus, probably, that, in courfe of time, dinner took the place of fupper, and fupper that of banquet. We have a very curious illuftration of the extravagant living at table of the latter half of the fifteenth century, in the curious allegorical tapeftry long preferved at Nancy, in Lorrain, and laid by tradition, probably with