XXV. The Old Woman
She is accompanied by two Deaths, one of whom, playing on a stickado,
or wooden psalter, precedes her. She seems more attentive to her rosary
of bones than to the music, whilst the other Death impatiently urges her
forward with blows.
Text from the 1947 Sylvan Press edition
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