قراءة كتاب The Dance of Death
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Death, in a wreath of flags, pulls away the Abbess by her scapulary in sight of a shrieking nun.
Death drags the resisting Nobleman towards a bier in the background.
The Canon, with his falconer, page, and jester, enters the church door. Death shows him that his sands have run.
Death withdraws the Judge's staff as he takes a bribe from a rich suitor.
Death comes upon him in the street while he is being feed by a rich client.
The Counsellor, prompted by a devil, is absorbed by a nobleman, and turns unheeding from a poor suppliant. But Death, with glass and spade, is waiting at his feet.
Death, in a stole, stands in the pulpit behind the fluent Preacher, and prepares to strike him down with a jaw-bone.
He carries the host to a sick person. But Death precedes him as his sacristan.
Death seizes him just as his begging box and bag are filled.
The young Nun kneels at the altar, but turns to her lover who plays upon a lute. Death meantime, as a hideous old hag, extinguishes the altar candles.
"Melior est mors quam vita" to the aged woman who crawls gravewards with her bone rosary while Death makes music in the van.
Death brings him a hopeless patient, and bids him cure himself.
He contemplates a pendent sphere. But Death thrusts a skull before his eyes.
Death finds him at his pay-table and seizes the money.
Death arrests him among his newly-arrived bales.
Death breaks the mast of the ship, and the crew are in extremity.
Death, in cuirass and chain-mail, runs him through the body.
Death, as a peasant with a flail, lifts away his back-piece.
Death, playing on a dulcimer, leads him into his grave.
