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A procession of the blind and physically disabled; allegory about sticks: how children are afraid of the rod but disadvantaged adults come to rely on it. Engraving by P. Galle, 1563?
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A procession of the blind and physically disabled; allegory about sticks: how children are afraid of the rod but disadvantaged adults come to rely on it. Engraving by P. Galle, 1563?

Unknown artist

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: Ingruit hinc morborum ingens mortalibus agmē,/ Artubus invalidos videas & lumine cassos,/ Ille lue Herculea cadit, hic hydrope tumescit./ Sic angustum æuum pestes populantur acerbæ ...

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