Four skeletons riding (right to left) on skeleton horses, carrying off a fat lawyer. The two foremost horses are galloping almost neck and neck apparently towards a gulf. The lawyer sits back to back with the rider of the near horse, to whom he is bound. He is shouting and struggling to get free; the skeleton holds up a bone. Behind him (right) ride two other skeletons on skeleton horses, the foremost holding up a scourge. A signpost (right) points the "Road to Hell". Two skulls (right) lie in the foreground. Beneath the title is engraved:
<p><br><br>"Where be his quiddits now? his quillets? his cases? his tenures? and his tricks? Why does he suffer this rude knave to knock him about the sconce with a rotten jaw-bone, and will not tell him of his action of battery? . . .
<br>Hamlet."  25 April 1782
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1782<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1782-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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