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IV. INTERPRETATIONS.
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| 2 | a. | Patience, holding a shield with a bull on it (never giving back).[1] |
| 2. | b. | Anger, a woman stabbing 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 cupbearer. 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 |
- ↑ "In the cathedral of Laon there is a pretty compliment paid to the oxen who carried the stones of its tower to the hilltop 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."
