. The dance of death. 69 THE VERY OLD MAN. XXVIII. THIS is a beautiful emblem of manssecond infancy. The helpless creature, boweddown with age, appears to listen with delightto the music of a dulcimer, with which Deathbeguiles him, and eyen wishes to handle conductor insidiously leads him to thegrave. \ 70 THE AGED WOMAN. XXIX. THE tedious pace of this old woman,who is more occupied with ji rosary composedof bones than with the music of a Deathwho precedes her, playing on the woodenpsalter or dulcimer, is discovered in the im-patience of another Death, who presses herforward with blows.

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. The dance of death. 69 THE VERY OLD MAN. XXVIII. THIS is a beautiful emblem of manssecond infancy. The helpless creature, boweddown with age, appears to listen with delightto the music of a dulcimer, with which Deathbeguiles him, and eyen wishes to handle conductor insidiously leads him to thegrave. \ 70 THE AGED WOMAN. XXIX. THE tedious pace of this old woman,who is more occupied with ji rosary composedof bones than with the music of a Deathwho precedes her, playing on the woodenpsalter or dulcimer, is discovered in the im-patience of another Death, who presses herforward with N\eU. or e«rt ^tor^e ^niM-in. \iia_ £x-cifi tc

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