Sancho sits at a table laden with food with his physician Pedro Rezzio surrounded by an assortment of people including two youths who remove the dishes. Engraving by T. Cook after William Hogarth.

Sancho deludes himself by thinking he is the King of Barataria, his folly being exploited by his "subjects", including a black man. The physician puports to be acting "out of great care for his health ordering every dish from the table before the governor tastes it". See part ii, chap. 47.