PLATE XXXIX.—THE DRUNKARDS.
Debauchery, and, above all, excess in drinking, undoubtedly furnish Death with powerful arms for committing his ravages. Here he appears pouring the wine in great abundance into the throat of one of these Drunkards, and the most beastly drunkenness reigns in these disgusting orgies.
Et nolite inebriari vino, in quo est luxuria. Eph. v. 18.