17. Bien tirada está. Girl drawing up her stocking in presence of an aged duenna. 18. Y se le quema la casa. ‘And his house is burning.’ Old man, seemingly drunk, does not perceive that his house is on fire. 19. Todos caer. ‘All will fall.’ Women pluck a bird which has a man’s head. Similar fowls hovering above. Suggests that men of all classes, undismayed by the fate of others, fall a prey to women. 20. Ya van desplumados. ‘They are already plucked. Young women, encouraged by old men, chasing birds furnished with men’s heads. 21. Qual la descañonan. ‘How they pluck her!’ Lawyers, in feline shape, plucking a bird provided with a woman’s head. 22. Pobrecitas! ‘Poor little things!’ Two women, hooded, escorted or annoyed by two cloaked men. 23. Aquellos polvos. ‘Dust and Ashes.’ A female victim of the Inquisition listening to the sentence read by a familiar of that tribunal. 24. No hubo remedio. ‘There was no remedy.’ A woman, stripped to the waist and mounted on an ass, is led away by the officers of the Inquisition. 25. Si quebró el cántaro. ‘Because he broke the pitcher.’ Mother chastising her boy. 26. Ya tienen asiento. ‘Now they have seats.’ Two women, nude from the waist downwards, carry their chairs on their heads. Meaning obscure. 27. Quién más rendido? ‘Which is the more bored?’ A gallant paying his oft-repeated compliments to a lady, who is weary of such empty homage. 28. Chitón! ‘Hush!’ A lady of fashion makes a sign to an old dame leaning on a stick. Allusion to the fashion in Spain of confiding _billets doux_ to beggars at the church doors. 29. Esto sí que es leer. ‘This is what he calls reading.’ A man of fashion reads in a desultory manner, while his valets attend to his toilette. Possibly a skit on some minister of state. 30. Porqué esconderlos? ‘Why hide them?’ A miser, possibly an ecclesiastic, endeavours to hide some bags of money from four persons who deride him. May be intended as a skit on the clergy, whose wealth was a matter of common knowledge. 31. Ruega por ella. ‘She prays for her.’ Girls at their toilette, and an old woman praying. Meaning obscure. 32. Porque fué sensible? ‘Why was she sensitive?’ A young girl weeping in a dungeon. This _may_ imply that people of excessive sensibility carry their own prison or torture-chamber with them. 33. Al Conde Palatino. ‘To the Count Palatine.’ A richly dressed charlatan extracting teeth. Allusion, probably, to the practice of such gentry of representing themselves as physicians to foreign potentates. 34. Las riende el sueño. ‘Sleep comforts them.’ Women asleep in prison. 35. Le descañona. ‘They shave him.’ Young man shaved by girls. 36. Mala noche. ‘A bad night.’ Women out in a stormy night. 37. Si sabrá más el discípulo? ‘Will the pupil know more [than the master]?’ A donkey, of dignified demeanour, teaching a little ass. 38. Brabisimo!