bing a man with a sword. Anger
is essentially a feminine vice--a man, worth calling so,
may be driven to fury or insanity by _indignation_,
(compare the Black Prince at Limoges,) but not by
anger. Fiendish enough, often so--"Incensed with
indignation, Satan stood, _unterrified_--" but in that last
word is the difference, there is as much fear in Anger,
as there is in Hatred.

3, A. GENTILLESSE, bearing shield with a lamb.

3, B. CHURLISHNESS, again a woman, kicking over her cup-bearer.
The final forms of ultimate French churlishness
being in the feminine gestures of the Cancan.
See the favourite prints in shops of Paris.

4, A. LOVE; the Divine, not human love: "I in them, and
Thou in me." Her shield bears a tree with many
branches grafted into its cut-off stem: "In those days
shall Messiah be cut off, but not for Himself."

4, B. DISCORD, a wife and husband quarrelling. She has
dropped her distaff (Amiens wool manufacture, see farther
on--9, A.)

5, A. OBEDIENCE, bears shield with camel. Actually the most
disobedient and ill-tempered of all serviceable beasts,--yet
passing his life in the most painful service. I do
not know how far his character was understood by the
northern sculptor; but I believe he is taken as a type
of burden-bearing, without joy or sympathy, such as
the horse has, and without power of offence, such as the
ox has. His bite is bad enough, (see Mr. Palgrave's
account of him,) but presumably little known of at
Amiens, even by Crusaders, who would always ride
their own war-horses, or nothing.

5, B. REBELLION, a man snapping his fingers at his Bishop.
(As Henry the Eighth at the Pope,--and the modern
French and English cockney at all priests whatever.)

6, A. PERSEVERENCE, the grandest spiritual form of the virtue
commonly called 'Fortitude.' Usually, overcoming
or tearing a lion; here, _caressing_ one, and _holding_ her
crown. "Hold fast that which thou hast, that no man
take thy crown."

6, B. ATHEISM, leaving his shoes at the church door. The infidel
fool is always represented in twelfth and thirteenth
century MS. as barefoot--the Christian having "his
feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of Peace."
Compare "How beautiful are thy feet w