XLIIITHE IDIOT FOOL.

• Quasi agnus lasciviens, et ignorans, nescit quod ad vinculostultus trahatur.'" —Prover. vii.

He is mocking Death, by putting his finger in his mouth,and at the same time endeavouring to strike him with hisbladder-bauble. Death smiling, and amused at his efforts,leads him away in a dancing attitude, playing at the same-time on a bagpipe.