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The dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein the capriciousness of that tyrant is exhibited in forty-six copper plates; done from the original designs ... ; to which are prefixed, descriptions of each plate in French and English, with the scripture text from which the designs were taken
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V LATE XLIL—THE OLD WOMAN.

X he grim countenance of this good old Dame does not indi-cate the same resignation as appears in the Former subject.Whollj occupied in mumbling her rosary, she pays no attentionto the sound of a dulcimer, on which one of her conductors isplaying. The other skeleton, impatient of the slowness of theOld Woman's march, is employing menaccs and blows to inakeher advance.

Melior est mors quam vita. Eccle. xxx. 17.

PLANCHE XLIL-LA VIEILLE.

JLiE visage rechigne de cette bonne Vieille n'annonce pas lattierae resignation que dans le sujet precedent. Toute occupeea marmotter son rosaire, eile ne pröte aucune attention au sondu timpanon dont joue l'une de ses conductrices. L'autre squc-lette impatient de la lenteur que la bonne Vieille met dans samarche, emploie les menaces & les coups pour la faire avancer.

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