PLATE XLII.—THE OLD WOMAN.
The grim countenance of this good old Dame does not indicate the same resignation as appears in the former subject. Wholly occupied in mumbling her rosary, she pays no attention to the sound of a dulcimer, on which one of her conductors is playing. The other skeleton, impatient of the slowness of the Old Woman’s march, is employing menaces and blows to make her advance.
Melior est mors quam vita. Eccle. xxx. 17.