THE DANCE OF DEATH. PLATE XIV.THE ABBESS. Wherefore I praised the dead, which are already dead, more than the living, which are yet alive. Eccles. iv. 2. Death ludicrously hooded with several flowing plumes,, and robed in a kind of gown, carries out of her convent an Abbess, whom he is dragging with all his might by her scapulary. The reverend Mother with regret is leaving life and the honours she enjoys; and expresses, by the alteration of her features and by her cries, the fright that Death has produced in her soul. Behind her, under the gate of the convent, appears a young Nun, strangely agitated with terror and grief. PLANCHE XIV.I/ABBESSE. La Mort ridiculement coiffee de diverses plumes flottantes, & vetue d'une espece de mante, emmene hors de son couvent une Abbesse qu'elle, tire de toutes ses forces par son scapulaire. I^a revc-rendissime Mere quitte a regret la vie & les hon-neurs dont elle jouit, & exprime par Palte*ration de ses traits & par ses cris, Peffroi que la Mort a jete dans son ame. On voit derriere elle, sous la porte de Tabbaye, une jeune Nonne, vivement agitee par lacrainte &par la douleur.