PLATE XI.—THE ABBE.
Death, not contented with stripping this fat Prelate of his crosier, which he is carrying in triumph on his shoulder, and his mitre, with which he is dressing himself, is dragging him away without pity. He raises his breviary with one hand, and with the other is making some vain efforts to push him off.
Ipse morietur, quia non habuit disciplinam, et in multitudine stultitiæ decipietur. Prov. v. 23.