Copenhagen's Dance of Death, Part 27

	Ieg haffde mig actid en Jomffru krantz nu maa ieg hæden i dødendantz Døden Suarer. Reck til mig dine huide hender Ieg følger dig bort fra venner och frender		Døden taler til Kiøbmanden. Du Kiøbmand baade Gærig oc Rig, Til Verden haffuer du megen sig. For Pendinge giør du dig stor flid, At høre Guds Ord, haffuer du ingen tid.

There's a leaf missing in Copenhagen's Dance of Death, so the red letters are taken from Dødedantz, and the picture of the traveling merchant is taken from Des Dodes Dantz.

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(1) virgin crants. . .: In the Middle Ages virgins were buried with a chaplet / garland as a symbol of their purity (later on this was only done for young girls). Shakespeare introduced the word into English: "Yet here she is allow'd her virgin crants, her maiden strewments …".

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