The Dances of Death / Through the Various Stages of Human Life: Wherein the Capriciousness of that Tyrant is Exhibited

by Unknown

PLATE XLI.—THE OLD MAN.

Here we see Death leading away, playing on a psaltery, an Old Man to the brink of the grave, bent under the load of years, and verging to the last degree of frailty. The Old Man allows himself to be carried off, with that calmness and tranquillity, which are the effects of wisdom, and the fruits of a good conscience.

Spiritus meus attenuabitur, dies mei breviabuntur, & solum mihi superest sepulchrum. Job xvii. 1.