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GSV3-french-lament

The hand-coloured tailpiece is centered on the page, below the text of the poem. The image is framed with a rectangular black border, horizontally oriented. The image depicts two figures separated by tangled black brambles. On the left, a pale woman kneels, holding her hands to her ears, her eyes closed. She wears a long, white medieval dress with a brown belt, and her hair is long and brown. On the right, a knight kneels forward on a green hill toward the brambles, his hands outstretched in prayer. His legs, stretched behind him, are shackled in red chains and manacles. He wears black armour and has a red sword at his hip. A line of green grass stretches across the bottom border of the frame. The register is slightly off, and the green bleeds a bit outside the frame along the bottom of the image. The artist’s monogram is at the mid right edge of the image.