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Bull |
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Bonte : vertu : sens et vaillance : |
Goodness, virtue, intelligence and strength |
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Death is often depicted riding on an ox, approaching slowly, but unstoppably. Examples here, here, here, here, here and here.
This idea probably originates with La dance aux aveugles, that is, the same work on which the texts of "Loups", "Vie" and Accidens" ultimately are based.
The texts in "Loups" and "Accident" do not allude to the bull, but it does so in "Vie" (right): "Upon this bull, which goes step by step / I am seated and do not hasten it" (»Dessus ce beuf qui s'en va pas-à-pas / Assise suis et ne le haste pas«).