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The priest: I pray for you all.
The soldier: I fight for you all.
The lawyer (with a book lying on the ground): I speak for you all.
The peasant: I feed you all.
The young woman: I delight you all.
Death: I kill you all.
Strasbourg, 1508. Source: Allegorie op de dood (Rijksmuseum). For more details and many examples of this trope, see Death & the Alls — “and I kill you all!”. There's a larger version here: Bett, fecht, red, ernehr.
Tags for this image: Lawyer, Peasant, Soldier, Young woman
The Dance of Death ⇒
Pictures #112 ⇒
Bett, fecht, red, ernehr