THE DANCE OF DEATH.

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PLATE XXT.—THE NEW-MARRIED PAIR.

Where thou diest, will I die.

Ruth, i. 17.

In the first transports of an happy union, thistender couple appear so wholly taken up witheach other, and so inebriated with their mutualhappiness, that they neither see nor hear. Death,who is marching before them, beating furiouslyon a little drum, is soon to give a cruel interrup-tion to their eqjoyments.

PLANCHE XXL—LES NOUVEAUX MARIES.

Dans les premiers transports d'une douceunion, ces deux tendres epoux paroissent telle-rnent occupes Tun de Pautre, ils sont si enivr£s deleur bonheur mutuel, qu'ils ne voient ni n'enten-dent la Mort qui marche devant eux, en frappantvigoureusement sur un petit tambour, & qui valeur donner bientot un cruel trouble-fete.