Væ qui justificatis impium pro muneribus, et justitiam justi aufertis ab eo. Isa. v. 23.
PLANCHE VI.—LE CARDINAL.
Un messager vient de lui remettre, en faisant une génuflexion, la bulle qui le fait cardinal. La Mort saisit ce moment pour paroître, et semble vouloir lui faire tourner son chapeau sur la tête. Le messager tient de la main droite une boîte de fer-blanc, pendu à une courroie, et dans laquelle il avoit sans doute apporté la bulle, que le cardinal nouvellement créé tient à la main droite avec les sceaux y affixé.
PLATE VII.—THE ELECTOR.
This prince, as he is coming out of his palace with his courtiers, is accosted by a poor woman, who implores his help for herself and the infant she holds by the hand; but he, insensible to the distresses of the widow and orphan, refuses to listen, and is turning aside with a disdainful air to his courtiers. Death at this instant appears; and his severe aspect announces, that he is just about to make him repent his hard-heartedness.
Princeps induetur mœrore, et quiescere faciam superbiam potentium. Ezek. vii. 24, 27.