And the pig-like emperor ridiculed by Luitprand was so violent and austere in his military methods that he was known as “The Pale Death of the Saracens.”

O blossoming life that leads to love's pale death!

Pale Death with even tread knocks at the threshold of rich and poor.

To stand within the dewy ring Where pale death smites the bone-set blooms, And everlasting's flowers, and plumes Of mint, with aromatic wing!

Ruin, and pale death surround me.