Note 88 — DESCRIPTION OF THE PRINTS, Etc.

Let it not be supposed that because the female mendicant and her handcuffed neighbour are half naked, they are in any degree ashamed. "Among the Papists there are religious orders who profess to prefer food, bed, and raiment of the vilest sort for their greater spiritual proficiency; and St. Philip Nerius was such a lover of poverty, that he frequently besought Almighty God to bring him to such a state as to stand in need of a penny, and find nobody that would give him one."—Lavington's Enthusiasm, etc.