PLATE X.—THE FRIAR PROVISOR.
As he is just stepping into his convent, with his Christmas-box and wallet, Death stops him at the door; and deaf to his cries, as well as regardless of the fright he throws him into, drags him with all his might by the cloak, and renders all the good Friar’s attempts to disengage himself ineffectual.
Sedentes in tenebris & umbra Mortis: vinctos in mendicitate. Psal. cvi. 10.
PLANCHE X.—LE FRERE QUETEUR.
Pret à rentrer dans son couvent avec sa tire-lire & sa besace, la Mort l’arrête à la porte, & toute aussi sourde à ses cris, qu’insensible à l’effroi qu’elle lui cause, elle le tire de toutes ses forces par son capuchon, & rend impuissans les efforts du bon Frère pour se dérober de ses mains.
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.