VIII. The King
He is seated at his repast before a well-covered table, under a
canopy studded with fleurs-de-lis. Death intrudes himself as a cupbearer,
and presents the King with probably his last draught. The figure of the
King seems intended as a portrait of Francis I.
Text from the 1947 Sylvan Press edition
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