PLATE VI.—THE CARDINAL.
A messenger has just presented to him, on his knees, the bull that constitutes him a cardinal. Death seizes this moment to make his appearance, and seems to want to turn his hat upon his head. The messenger is holding in his right hand a tin box, hung by a strap, in which he had, no doubt, carried the bull, which the new made cardinal holds in his right hand with the seals appended to it.
Væ qui justificatis impium pro muneribus, et justitiam justi aufertis ab eo. Isa. v. 23.