Wellcome Collection
One man is holding his hands over the head of another as he kneels before him, a figure of a devil is standing behind the kneeling man. Engraving.
Unknown artist
Lettering: A private ordination. It is true I have suffered the infectious hand of a Bishop to be waved over me: whose imposition like the sop given to Judas, is only a signal for the Devil to enter, it is true, usually at that touch - fugiunt pudor verumque, fidesque. In quorum sebeunt locum fraudes, dolique, insidioeque. &c.&c.
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