The Basel Dance of Death 21

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

"Gracious and pure Lady Abbess, 

How do you have such a small belly? 
Still, I will not hold that against you, 
I would sooner bite myself in the finger." 

"I have read from the Psalter, 
In the choir before the Lord's altar. 
Now no praying will avail me, 
I too must here follow after Death."