The Dance of Death

XXV. - The Old Woman

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THE OLD WOMAN.
THE OLD WOMAN.

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Melior est mors quàm vita.

Eccle. xxx.

En peine ay uescu longuement

Tant que nay plus de uiure enuie,

Mais bien ie croy certainement,

Meilleure la Mort que la uie.

"Melior est mors quam vita" to the aged woman who crawls gravewards with her bone rosary while Death makes music in the van.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and universal as death should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. -- Jonathan Swift

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This is a collection of images taken from Holbein's Dance of Death. This book is illustrated with 49 beautiful woodcut engravings, each a miniature masterpiece depicting various manifestations of death. View more: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [14] [16] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [47] [48] [49]

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