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|- style="text-align:center;font-size:90%;" |The Abbot.
Death despoils the Abbot of his mitre and crozier, and drags him away. The Abbot resists, about to throw his breviary at his adversary. || || The Mendicant Friar.
He is about to enter his convent with his money-box and wallet, when Death seizes him by the cowl, and compels him to leave the world. |- | ⁠ || ⁠ || ⁠ |-

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|- style="text-align:center;font-size:90%;" | The Preacher.
Death, with a stole about his neck, stands behind the Preacher, and holds a jaw-bone over his head, intimating that he is the more forcible teacher.|| ||The Knight.
After escaping perils in numerous combats, the Knight ineffectually resists the onset of Death, and is vanquished by one thrust of the spear. |}