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Third victim and third arrow is the old man, who is struck by the Arrow of Ashes:
| Death Man, who has received too high an age: Both your parents are dead. My dart of ashes will not create 176 an outrage if it passes through him. |
By now it should be apparent that this "dance" does not follow the normal hierarchy of a traditional dance of death. Such a dance would start with the mightiest men: Pope and emperor, and would meander its way down through the social classes of society. The maid and the old man would come at the end, not belonging to any particular class.
The scheme in this book, if indeed there is any, is harder to figure out. The author has evidently found it pertinent to introduce us to the three arrows, before returning to the frame story of The Bible and sin.
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La mort Lancien La meschine |
Dances of death
Various
Mors de la Pomme
Old man