Fancy dress and comic dances have handed down the same characteristics
almost to our own time. The Wildeman costume dance (fig. 41) is
interesting in many respects, it not only shows us the dance, but the
costume and general method of the Chamber.

[Illustration: Fig. 40.--Dancing in a "pleasure garden," end of the
15th century. French, from the "Roman de la Rose," in the British
Museum.]

The fifteenth century comic dancers in a _fête champétre_ (fig. 42)
and those of the seventeenth century by Callot (fig. 52) are good
examples of this entertainment--in the background of the latter a
minuet seems to be in progress. The Morris dance (fig. 50) shows us
the development that had taken place since the fourteenth century.

[Illustration: Fig. 41.--Fancy dress dance of Wildemen of the 15th
century. From MS. 4379 Harl, British Museum.]

[Illustration: Fig. 42.--Comic dance to pipe and tabor, end of 15th
century. From pen drawing in the Mediaeval House Book in the Castle of
Wolfegg, by the Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet.]

[Illustration: Fig. 43.--A dance of Angels and Saints at the entrance
to Heaven. Fra Angelico.]

[Illustration: Fig. 44.--Dancing angels. From a "Nativity" by Sandro
Botticelli _circa_ 1500 A.D.] [Illustration: Fig. 45.--Albert Dürer,
1514 A.D.]

[Illustration: Fig. 46.--Albert Dürer.]