XX.

THE MAGISTRATE.

" Qui obturat aurem suam ad clamor em pauperis, et ipseclamabit, et non exaudietur. "—Proverb, xxi.

A Demon is blowing corruption into the ear of a magistrate,who has turned his back on a poor man, whilst he is in closeconversation with another person, to whose story he seemsemphatically attentive. Death at his feet with an hour-glassand spade.

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