La foible femme brigandee
Crie, O seigneur on me fait force.
Lors de Dieu la mort est mandee,
Qui les estrangle a dure estorce.
XLVII.
[Illustration: THE BLIND MAN.]
Caecus caecum ducit: & ambo in foueam cadunt.
Matth. xv.
L'aueugle un autre aueugle guide,
L'un par l'autre en la fosse tombe:
Car quand plus oultre aller il cuide,
La MORT l'homme iecte en la tombe.
XLVIII.
[Illustration: THE WAGGONER.]
Corruit in curru suo.
i Chron. xxii.
Au passage de MORT peruerse
Raison, chartier tout esperdu,
Du corps le char, & cheuaux verse,
Le vin (sang de vie) espandu.
XLIX.
[Illustration: THE BEGGAR.]
Miser ego homo! Quis nie liberabit de corpore mortis huius?
Rom. vii.
Qui hors la chair veult en Christ viure
Ne craint mort, mais dit un mortel,
Helas, qui me rendra deliure
Pouure homme de ce corps mortel?
* * * * *
_Of this edition of Holbein's "The Dance of Death,"
seven hundred and fifty copies have been printed
on Japan vellum, for the Scott-Thaw Co., by the
Heintzemann Press, July, MCMIII._
[Transcriber's Note: In the work used for this digitization, each pair
of facing pages has the Latin biblical quotation at the top of the left
page printed in red, the French quatrain at the bottom of the left page
printed in black, and the illustration (numbered above, and captioned
below) on the right page, opposite the text. For clarity in the
text-only version, the plate numbers and captions have been moved to
precede their corresponding verses.]
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