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The English dance of death, from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson; (1903)

Combe, William, 1742-1823, Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 · London, Methuen and co. · leaf 56

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is, Old Senex said ; My Fortune is for ever made.— It is, indeed, a voice replied :The Old Man heard it—terrified ;And, as Fear threw him to the ground,Through the long tube Death gave thewound. Though Senex died no thunder rolld,No lightning flashd, no tempests growld:Nor did the Pleiades… … ENGLISH DANGE OF DEATH 37 THE FATHER OF THE FAMILY At Bristol, as the Storys told,Or in some other place as old,The Healing Doctors, when they striveIn vain to keep sick folks alive.Are, by the common Custom ledTo pay their duties to the Dead :The Patients whom they cannot save,They always usher to…

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