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The celebrated Hans Holbein's Alphabet of death : illustrated with old borders engraved on wood with Latin sentences and English quatrains (1856)

Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543, Montaiglon, Anatole de, 1824-1895, Le Maire, Leon · Paris : E. Tross · leaf 19

An illustration from The celebrated Hans Holbein's Alphabet of death : illustrated with old borders engraved on wood with Latin sentences and English quatrains, 1856, leaf 19
bique le mors expectat. Tli quo- que, si sapiens fuens, ubique earn expeetabis. S. BEKNAUDUS. Sir emperour, lorde of alle the grounde, Soverayne prynce and h teste of noblesse, Ye moste forsake of golde your aple rounde, Sceptre and swerde, and alle your high [prowesse.

Dance of death

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