49. THE ALLEGORICAL ESCUTCHEON OF DEATH. The coat or shield is fractured in several places. On it is a skull, and at top the crest as a helmet surmounted by two arm bones, the hands of which are grasping a ragged piece of stone, and between them is placed an hour-glass. The supporters are a gentleman and lady in the dresses of the times. In the description of this cut Papillon has committed some very absurd mistakes, already noticed in p. 110. I THE CREATION [Illustration] Formavit Dominus Deus hominem de limo terræ, &c. _Gen._ i. II THE TEMPTATION [Illustration] Quia audisti vocem uxoris tuæ, et comedisti de ligno, &c. _Gen._ iii. III THE EXPULSION [Illustration] Emisit eum Dominum Deus de Paradiso voluptatis, ut operaretur terram de qua sumptus est. _Gen._ iii. IV THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE FALL [Illustration] Maledicta terra in opere tuo, in laboribus comedes cunctis diebus vitæ tuæ, donec revertaris, &c. _Gen._ iii. V A CEMETERY [Illustration] Væ, væ, væ habitantibus in terra. _Apoc._ viii. VI THE POPE [Illustration] Moriatur sacerdos magnus. _Josue_ xx. VII THE EMPEROR [Illustration] Dispone domui tuæ, morieris, enim tu, et non vives. _Isaiæ_ xxxviii. VIII THE KING [Illustration] Sicut et Rex hodie est, et cras morietur; nemo enim ex regibus aliud habuit. _Eccles._ x. _et Sapient._ vii. IX THE CARDINAL [Illustration] Væ qui justificatis impium pro muneribus, et justitiam justi aufertis ab eo. _Isaiæ_ v. X THE EMPRESS [Illustration] Gradientes in superbia potest Deus humiliare. _Dan._ iv. XI THE QUEEN [Illustration] Mulieres opulentæ surgite, et audite vocem meam: post dies et annum, et vos conturbemini. _Isaiæ_ xxxii. XII THE BISHOP [Illustration] Percutiam pastorem, et dispergentur oves gregis. _Mat._ xxvi. _Mar._ xiv. XIII THE DUKE [Illustration] Princeps induetur moerore, et quiescere faciam superbiam potentium. _Ezech._ viii. XIV THE ABBOT [Illustration] Ipse morietur, quia non habuit disciplinam, et in multitudine stultitiæ suæ decipietur. XV THE ABBESS [Illustration] Laudavi magis mortuos quam viventes. _Eccles._ iv. XVI THE GENTLEMAN [Illustration] Quis est homo qui vivet, et non videbit mortem, eruet animam suam de manu inferi? XVII THE CANON [Illustration] Ecce appropinquat hora. _Mat._ xxvi. XVIII THE JUDGE [Illustration] Disperdam judicem de medio ejus. _Amos_ ii. XIX THE ADVOCATE [Illustration] Callidus vidit malum, et abscondit se: innocens pertransiit, et afflictus est damno. _Prover._ xxii. XX THE MAGISTRATE [Illustration] Qui obturat aurem suam ad clamorem pauperis, et ipse clamabit, et non exaudietur. _Prover._ xxi. XXI THE PREACHER [Illustration] Væ qui dicitis malum bonum, et bonum malum: ponentes tenebras lucem, et lucem tenebras: ponentes amarum in dulce, et dulce in amarum. _Isaiæ_ v. XXII THE PRIEST [Illustration] Sum quidem et ego mortalis homo. _Sap._ vii. XXIII THE MENDICANT [Illustration]