The Basel Dance of Death 8

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

"Your dignity has been turned, 

Lord Bishop, wise and well-learned; 

I will draw you into the dance, 

You cannot flee from Death." 

"I have been highly esteemed, 

While I lived in my bishop's office. 

Now the shapeless draw me in, 

To their dance like an ape."