Wellcome Collection
A bird's beak cuts a woman's hand; representing the sense of touch and the fact that it persists longer (in pain) than the other senses. Engraving, 16--.
Unknown artist
Lettering: When hearing, seeing, tasting, smelling's past,/ Feeling (as long as life remaines) doth last/ Mayde reach my lute, I am not well indeede:/ O pitty-mee, my bird hath made me bleede.
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