Marcus Gheeraerts monkey and cat

The monkey forcing the cat to extract the nuts from the fire (illustration to the fable of the "catspaw"); a trencher copied from Gheeraerts's illustrations to Aesop. c.1630/6
Engraving; Diameter: 123 millimetres
From a set of twelve plates that were intended to be used as trenchers.
"The Monkey seing nuts in fire
Doth force the Cat to plucke them neir;
Which showeth the Enuious doth not care,

whose House do burne so they haue share."