4.

26. HAGGAI.

Inside {A. The houses of the princes, _ornees de
porch lambris_. i. 4.
{B. The heaven is stayed from dew. i. 10.

To the {C. The Lord's temple desolate. i. 4.
front {D. "Thus saith the Lord of Hosts." i. 7.

27. ZECHARIAH.

A. The lifting up of iniquity. v. 6-9.
B. The angel that spake to me. iv. 1.

28. MALACHI.

A. "Ye have wounded the Lord." ii. 17.
B. This commandment is to _you_. ii. 1.

[Footnote 60: See the Septuagint version.]

41. Having thus put the sequence of the statues and their quatrefoils
briefly before the spectator--(in case the railway time presses, it
may be a kindness to him to note that if he walks from the east end of
the cathedral down the street to the south, Rue St. Denis, it takes
him by the shortest line to the station)--I will begin again with St.
Peter, and interpret the sculptures in the quatrefoils a little more
fully. Keeping the fixed numerals for indication of the statues, St.
Peter's quatrefoils will be 1 A and 1 B, and Malachi's 28 A and 28 B.

1, A. COURAGE, with a leopard on his shield; the French and
English agreeing in the reading of that symbol, down
to the time of the Black Prince's leopard coinage in
Aquitaine.[61]

[Footnote 61: For a list of the photographs of the quatrefoils
described in this chapter, see the appendices at the end of this
volume.]

2, B. COWARDICE, a man frightened at an animal darting out
of a thicket, while a bird sings on. The coward has
not the heart of a thrush.

2, A. PATIENCE, holding a shield with a bull on it (never giving
back).[62]

[Footnote 62: In the cathedral of Laon there is a pretty compliment
paid to the oxen who carried the stones of its tower to the hill-top
it stands on. The tradition is that they harnessed themselves,--but
tradition does not say how an ox can harness himself even if he had a
mind. Probably the first form of the story was only that they went
joyfully, "lowing as they went." But at all events their statues are
carved on the height of the tower, eight, colossal, looking from its
galleries across the plains of France. See drawing in Viollet le Duc,
under article "Clocher."]

2, B. ANGER, a woman stab