VIII

THE KING.

'' Sicut et Rex kodie est, et eras morietur; nemo enim exregibus ahud habnit." —Ecclesiast. x. et Sapient, vii.

He is sitting at his repast before a well-covered table,under a canopy studded with fleurs-de-lis. Death intrudeshimself as a cupbearer, and presents the King with probablyhis last draught. The figure of the king seems intended as aportiait of Francis I.