9; work of about the same date, and exactly the same plan;
quatrefoils filled with grotesques, but somewhat less finished in
execution, and somewhat less wild in imagination. I wrote down hastily,
and in their own course, the subjects of some of the quatrefoils of
Lyons; of which I here give the reader the sequence:--

1. Elephant and castle; less graphic than the St. Zeno one.

2. A huge head walking on two legs, turned backwards, hoofed; the
head has a horn behind, with drapery over it, which ends in
another head.

3. A boar hunt; the boar under a tree, very spirited.

4. A bird putting its head between its legs to bite its own tail,
which ends in a head.

5. A dragon with a human head set on the wrong way.

6. St. Peter awakened by the angel in prison; full of spirit, the
prison picturesque, with a trefoiled arch, the angel eager, St.
Peter startled, and full of motion.

7. St. Peter led out by the angel.

8. The miraculous draught of fishes; fish and all, in the small
space.

9. A large leaf, with two snails rampant, coming out of nautilus
shells, with grotesque faces, and eyes at the ends of their
horns.

10. A man with an axe striking at a dog's head, which comes out of
a nautilus shell: the rim of the shell branches into a stem
with two large leaves.

11. Martyrdom of St. Sebastian; his body very full of arrows.

12. Beasts coming to ark; Noah opening a kind of wicker cage.

13. Noah building the ark on shores.

14. A vine leaf with a dragon's head and tail, the one biting the
other.

15. A man riding a goat, catching a flying devil.

16. An eel or muraena growing into a bunch of flowers, which turns
into two wings.

17. A sprig of hazel, with nuts, thrown all around the quatrefoils
with a squirrel in centre, apparently attached to the tree only
by its enormous tail, richly furrowed into hair, and nobly
sweeping.

18. Four hares fastened together by the ears, galloping in a circle.
Mingled with these grotesques are many _sword_ and _buckler_
combats, the bucklers being round and conical like a hat; I
thought the first I noticed, carried by a man at full gallop on
horseback, had been a small umbrella.

This list of subjects may sufficiently illustrate the feverish character
of the Northern Energy