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Saturday, August 10, 2024

The Basel Dance of Death 6


Matthäus Merian, The Basel Dance of Death: The Queen (1616) 

"Lady Queen, your joy has ended,
dance with me into the death-house.
Neither beauty, nor gold, nor money will help you.
I am dancing with you into the next world." 

"Oh woe and alas, oh woe forever!
Where is now my band of maids 
with whom I had many pleasures?
Oh Death, go gently, do not make haste with me." 





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