. The dance of death. mxxza. I-a^E. - oe iti. lueiv. 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
. The dance of death. mxxza. I-a^E. - oe iti. lueiv. 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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