The Dance of Death

XXIX. - The Merchant

THE MERCHANT.

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Qui congregat thesauros mendacij vanus & excors est, & impingetur ad laqueos mortis.

Prover. xxi.

Vain est cil qui amassera

Grandz biens, & tresors pour mentir,

La Mort l'en fera repentir.

Car en ses lacz surpris sera.

Death arrests the merchant among his newly-arrived bales.

We must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. -- Holy Bible, 2 Samuel Cgapter 14v. 14

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