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One Death grabs the cardinal, while another Death (partially hidden by the cardinal) steals his T-cross.
The accompanying text for this letter goes: »We üch /
die gerecht machen den ungerechten umb die goben / vnd die gerechtigkeyt des gerechten nempt ir von im«.
This is Isaiah 5, 22-23, which Luther translates: »Weh denen, [...] die den Schuldigen gerecht sprechen für Geschenke und das Recht nehmen denen, die im Recht sind!«. In English: »Woe unto them [...] Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!«
To the left is a copy designed by Hollar.
Dansk 
Lübeck's dance of death
Holbein
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