PLATE XXXVIII.—THE HIGHWAY ROBBER.
This ill-fated man attacks in a forest, a country girl returning from the fair, and is endeavouring to take from her what she is bringing from thence; but, fortunately for the poor woman, Death comes to her assistance; and laying hold of the Robber, prevents, probably only by a few days, the hangman, who would have made him bear on a scaffold the punishment due to his crimes.
Quasi agnus lasciviens & ignorans, nescit quod ad vincula stultus trahatur. Prov. vii. 22.