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THE PREPARATIONS FOR PRINTING.
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| The Abbot. Death despoils the Abbot of his mitre and crozier, and drags him away. The Abbot resists, about to throw his breviary at his adversary. |
The Mendicant Friar. He is about to enter his convent with his money-box and wallet, when Death seizes him by the cowl, and compels him to leave the world. | ||
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| The Preacher. Death, with a stole about his neck, stands behind the Preacher, and holds a jaw-bone over his head, intimating that he is the more forcible teacher. |
The Knight. After escaping perils in numerous combats, the Knight ineffectually resists the onset of Death, and is vanquished by one thrust of the spear. |
Holbein's Illustrations of the Dance of Death.
[From Douce.]
