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Beggar, Soldier, Peasant, and Nobleman
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Sheet with four depictions with proverbs derived from dice games. Under each depiction a four-line verse. Beggar with a scroll with the inscription: Aes en Aes en heeft niet. Soldier with a scroll with the inscription: Deux Aes en geeft niet. Peasant with a scroll with the inscription: Quater trois moet geeven. Nobleman with a scroll with the inscription: Daer Sinque Six van moet leven. Numbered in the upper right: No. 2. Subject categories within the Atlas of Customs and Manners: Play and Entertainment; parlor games; dice games.
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Credit lineBedelaar Krijgsman Boer Edelman. 1842 - 1866. weduwe C. Kok geboren Van Kolm. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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Children, here are the four states of mankind / Which do you now wish best for yourselves?
Pay attention, clever youth! to the benefit these print scenes / Communicate to you from many histories of the Bible; / Behold here Joseph's lot, exalted after much suffering, / As well as what Moses did, by God, for Israel
O Children, See This Fine Print, / It is Beautiful from One End to the Other / Also Read the Short Rhymes / And Be Cheerful Together