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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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PLATE XLVL-THE FOOL.

JLIeath is leading him away gaily, making him dance to thesound of a bagpipe. The Fool, ignorant without doubt of thecatastrophe that awaits him, seems to be meditating some pieceof mischief, which will probably be his last.

This dancing couple finish the procession, wherein Holbeinhas had the skill to unite a salutary moral with the gayest andliveliest sallies that form a singular contrast with the sadness ofthe subject.

Quasi agnus lasciviens, & ignorans quod ad vincula stultustrahatur. Prov. vii. 22.

PLANCHE XLVI. LE FOU.

Jua Mort remmene gaiement en le faisant danserau son d'unecornemuse; le Fou qui ne sait pas sans doute la catastrophe quiTattend, paroit mediter une malice qui sera vraisemblablementla derniere.

Ce couple dansant termine la marche de cette suite oüHolbein a sü rcunir une morale salutaire, aux sallies les plusgaies & les plus plaisantes qui contrastent singulierement avccla tristesse du sujet.

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