The Canon, with his falconer, page, and jester, enters the church door. Death shows him that his sands have run. THE JUDGE XVIII _Der Richter._ Death withdraws the Judge's staff as he takes a bribe from a rich suitor. THE ADVOCATE XIX _Der Fuersprach._ Death comes upon him in the street while he is being feed by a rich client. THE COUNSELLOR, OR SENATOR XX _Der Rathsherr._ The Counsellor, prompted by a devil, is absorbed by a nobleman, and turns unheeding from a poor suppliant. But Death, with glass and spade, is waiting at his feet. THE PREACHER XXI _Der Predicant._ Death, in a stole, stands in the pulpit behind the fluent Preacher, and prepares to strike him down with a jaw-bone. THE PRIEST, OR PASTOR XXII _Der Pfarrherr._ He carries the host to a sick person. But Death precedes him as his sacristan. THE MENDICANT FRIAR XXIII _Der Moench._ Death seizes him just as his begging box and bag are filled. THE NUN XXIV _Die Nonne._ The young Nun kneels at the altar, but turns to her lover who plays upon a lute. Death meantime, as a hideous old hag, extinguishes the altar candles. THE OLD WOMAN XXV _Das Altweib._ "_Melior est mors quam vita_" to the aged woman who crawls gravewards with her bone rosary while Death makes music in the van. THE PHYSICIAN XXVI _Der Arzt._ Death brings him a hopeless patient, and bids him cure himself. THE ASTROLOGER XXVII (_See p. 10, l. 12._) He contemplates a pendent sphere. But Death thrusts a skull before his eyes. THE RICH MAN XXVIII _Der Reichmann._ Death finds him at his pay-table and seizes the money. THE MERCHANT XXIX _Der Kaufmann._ Death arrests him among his newly-arrived bales. THE SHIPMAN XXX _Der Schiffmann._ Death breaks the mast of the ship, and the crew are in extremity. THE KNIGHT XXXI _Der Ritter._ Death, in cuirass and chain-mail, runs him through the body. THE COUNT XXXII _Der Graf._ Death, as a peasant with a flail, lifts away his back-piece. THE OLD MAN XXXIII _Der Altmann._ Death, playing on a dulcimer, leads him into his grave.