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 and Se?itiments. Ml This period alfo differs from former periods in the much greater number of beds, and greater abundance of bed-furniture, we find in the houfes. We have often feveral beds in one chamber. Few of the prin- cipal bedrooms had lefs than two beds. The form of the bedftead was now almoil: univerfiUy that with four polls. Still in the engravings of the fixteenth century, we find the old couch-bed reprefented. Such appears to be the bed in our cut No. 300, taken from Whitney's "Em- blems," an Engliih book printed at Leyden in 1586. We have here No. 300. A Dying Man and his Treajura another, and rather a late example, of the manner in which money was hoarded up in chefl:s in the chambers. The couch-bed is ftill more diftin£tly Ihown in our cut No. 301, taken from Albert Durer's print of St. Jerome, dated in 15 11. This print is remarkable for its detail of the furniture of a bed-chamber, and efpecially for the manner in which the various fmaller articles are arranged and fufpended to the walls. Not the leaft remarkable of thefe articles is the Angular combination of a clock and an hour glafs, which is placed againft the wall as a time-piece. This feems, however, to have been not uncommon. A time-piece of the fame kind is reprefented in our cut No. 302, which is taken from a print of St. Jerome at prayer, by Hans Springen Kelle, without date, but evidently