‘Tantalus.’ A man, wringing his hands, supports a swooning woman. Possibly points the same moral as the saying, _Si vieillesse pouvait...._
‘Love and death.’ A woman supporting a dying man.
Four Andalusian brigands seated round a tree.
‘Tooth-hunting.’ A woman trying to extract the tooth of a man hanging.
‘They are hot.’ Monks at table. An ironical suggestion in the title.
‘What a sacrifice!’ Young girl bestowed in marriage on an ugly old man.
‘Good counsel.’ Duenna gives worldly advice to a young girl, who listens with attention.
‘May God pardon her--it was her mother.’ Young lady turns scornfully from a beggar-woman. A rebuke to upstarts, forgetful of the ties of kindred.
Girl drawing up her stocking in presence of an aged duenna.
‘And his house is burning.’ Old man, seemingly drunk, does not perceive that his house is on fire.
‘All will fall.’ Women pluck a bird which has a man’s head. Similar fowls hovering above. Suggests that men of all classes, undismayed by the fate of others, fall a prey to women.
‘They are already plucked. Young women, encouraged by old men, chasing birds furnished with men’s heads.
‘How they pluck her!’ Lawyers, in feline shape, plucking a bird provided with a woman’s head.
‘Poor little things!’ Two women, hooded, escorted or annoyed by two cloaked men.
‘Dust and Ashes.’ A female victim of the Inquisition listening to the sentence read by a familiar of that tribunal.
‘There was no remedy.’ A woman, stripped to the waist and mounted on an ass, is led away by the officers of the Inquisition.
‘Because he broke the pitcher.’ Mother chastising her boy.
‘Now they have seats.’ Two women, nude from the waist downwards, carry their chairs on their heads. Meaning obscure.
‘Which is the more bored?’ A gallant paying his oft-repeated compliments to a lady, who is weary of such empty homage.
‘Hush!’ A lady of fashion makes a sign to an old dame leaning on a stick. Allusion to the fashion in Spain of confiding _billets doux_ to beggars at the church doors.
‘This is what he calls reading.’ A man of fashion reads in a desultory manner, while his valets attend to his toilette. Possibly a skit on some minister of state.
‘Why hide them?’ A miser, possibly an ecclesiastic, endeavours to hide some bags of money from four persons who deride him. May be intended as a skit on the clergy, whose wealth was a matter of common knowledge.