Title from item.
Headpiece illustration from: A cloak for knavery, or, The Scottish religion worn out (1642?).
Engraving with eight lines of engraved verse below.
Verses continue: For every wicked and Rebelious thing, / Errors are hid heer on the right and left / Rebelion, Idolitry, and Theft, / Plunders, and Rapins, Whordoms, Fornications, / Dissimulations, Flateries, and Invasions, / By Time, this Cloake is worn frō of their Back / So their's discover'd many a Knavish Knack.
Mounted as item 84 in an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Library's copy backed with paper and trimmed to image.
Illustration for: Cloak for knavery, or, The Scottish religion worn out
Print shows three standing figures, including the winged figure of Father Time, at left, holding up a cloak or blanket labeled "Religion" to wrap an armed central figure, with his features and accessories variously labeled "Persecution", "Emulation", "Discord", "Idolitry", "Rebellion", "Murther", etc.; at far left, a man identified as "A good Com̄onewelths man", stands with his hand to his mouth in a pensive posture, holding a document in his other hand which reads, "To the Honble house of Com̄ons & the high court of Parliament".