Everyman

Signed at lower right: H · COCK · EXCUD · CUM · PRIVILEG; inscribed at upper centre, below in the picture: NIEMA[N]T · EN KENT · HE[M] · SELVE[N] [Nobody knows himself]; in the centre, above the man holding the lantern: NEMO NON [not no one]; on the hems of the garments of the figures in the foreground: ELCK (Everyman); under the two men rummaging in the background: ELCK; in the margin: NEMO NON QUAERIT PASSIM SUA COMMODA, NEMO/ NON QU[A]ERIT SESE CUNCTIS IN REBUS AGENDIS, // NEMO NON INHIAT PRIVATIS UNDIQUE LUCRIS,/ HIC TRAHIT, ILLE TRAHIT, CUNCTIS AMOR UNUS HABENDIS EST · [No one does not seek his own advantage everywhere, no one does not seek himself in all that he does, no one does not look everywhere for private gain. This one pulls, that one pulls, all have the same love of possession]. Some of the prints bear inscriptions in letterpress in the lower margin, consisting of 2 x 4 lines in French and 2 x 4 lines in Dutch.