People engaged in pleasures (dancing, drinking, gaming, flirting) to counteract the pains of illness and old age. Line engraving attributed to O. van Veen (Vaenius).

Right, masked dancers and other pleasure-seekers. Left, a poor family seeking alms and a sick man in bed being attended by a physician: these represent the statement that "the gout, stone, want and care Will seize thee soon: pain will thy hours waste, And tedious sufferings make thee sadly pay A cruel interest for enjoyments past" (translated from Horace?)