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The next victim is the young virgin, who is struck by the Arrow of Fire:
| Death I will put a spark by my dart, which is full of fire, straight to the heart of this virgin. 164 There was never such pain. |
Here we also begin to sense the format: Each episode has three verses: Death, the victim and a witness who sums up the moral of this episode.
| The Virgin I can well accept that God wants to send me [away]. The person has no knowledge, 168 who will go astray because of Death. |
In this case, the witness is the woman to the right (you may take a look at the format in the original manuscript):
| The Woman God, what pain and what a loss! It seems to me to be very harsh that a woman alive and alert 172 [must] die in her strength and vigor. |
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La mort La pucelle La femme |
