Double composition of 20 figures [the other version has less] in two groups of 10 each. moving to R., divided by a door in the middle over which five amorini hold up a scroll. In the group to the R.. the three leading figures may be identified with Reproach, Repentance, Shame; and the forth carrying a bag and dropping coins, with unthriftyhead; and the fifth, with Care, wringing her hands. Beyond these, in giving form and colour to the poet's vision, the painter seems not to have followed the words (unless the lovely figure with downcast eyes to the L. of the pillar be taken for Sorrow), but has introduced out of the rude confusèd rout", gentler beings of his own imagining. In the group to L. Riotise may perhaps be meant by the nude figure facing and holding two burning braziers on long stems, also Infirmity with her crutch, and Dread, upon whose shoulders Vengeance from Heaven, with drwn sword and a whirlwind of blown draperies, lays her hand. To the left stands Britomart outside the moving throng. Begun about 1870. Taken up again 1898.