PLATE XXXI.—THE ADVOCATE.
This subject answers to No. 29. The example of the Judge seems to authorize the Advocate to get himself well paid for his prevarication, and that even in the presence of his poor client, whose wretched condition would raise compassion in any breast less obdurate than that of the lawyer. But Death will avenge the oppressed; he is pouring into the hands of the Advocate money in abundance, of which he will have little use, for he is, at the same instant, shewing him, with an air of insult, his sand run out.
Callidus vidit malum, & abscondit, sed innocens pertransiit & afflictus est damno. Prov. xxii. 3.