In this printing device owned by Foxe's publisher, John Day, a richly dressed man speaks to another man and gestures downward with his right hand toward a skeleton. The skeleton lies on top of a casket, which is located outdoors before a city and harbor. The man speaks a subordinate clause ("Et si mors, indies accelerat), and the skeleton supplies a main clause (Post funera virtus vivet tamen"). ["Although death hastens on from day to day, after burial virtue nevertheless will live on."] The sun shines through clouds above, and a tree grows out from the skeleton. Day uses this image in other publications, but it appears only once among the first four editions of the Book of Martyrs, on the final page of the index in the first edition (1563). No Luborsky and Ingram #. JPEG file (2.45 MB).
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