XL

THE QUEEN.

" Mulieres opulentce surgite, et audite vocem meam ; post dieset annum, et vos conturbemini. ''—Isaias xxxii.

She has just issued from her palace, when Death un-expectedly appears and forcibly drags her away. Her jester,in whose habiliments Death has ludicrously attired himself,endeavours in vain to protect his mistress. A female atten-dant is violently screaming. Death holds up his hour-glassto indicate the arrival of the fital hour.