Thielman Kerver: Parish priest

Kerver Peasant

The parish priest with French subtitles published by Thielman Kerver.

Le cure.

Iay mange du vif et du mort
et la mort me mort sans confort.

I ate the living and the dead(1)
and Death kills me without comfort.

(1) In La Danse Macabre Death says to the priest: »Le vif le mort solies menger«. Presumably the meaning is that the priest has earned his bread from the living and the dead. There's a larger version here: Priest.

Priest

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