| To the front. | ||
| c. | "Thy Princes and thy great ones " (iii. 17). | |
| 23. | a, b, and c, are all incapable of sure interpretation. The prophet in A is pointing down
to a little hill, said by the Pere Roze to be covered with grasshoppers. I can only copy what he says of them. | |
| 23, | d. | "Untimely figs" (iii. 12).
Three people beneath a fig-tree catch its falling fruit in their mouths. |
| 24. Habkkuk. | ||
| 24, | a. | "I will watch to see what he will say unto me" (ii. 1).
The prophet is writing on his tablet to Christ's dictation. |
| 24, | b. | The ministry to Daniel.
The traditional visit to Daniel. An angel carries Habakkuk by the hair of his head; the prophet has a loaf of bread in each hand. They break through the roof of the |
plaited like a maiden's, indicating the Achillean force of this most terrible of the prophets. (Compare ' Fors Clavigera,' Letter LXY.. page 157.) For the rest, this long flowing hair was always one of the insignia of the Frankish kings, and their way of dressing both hair and beard may be seen more nearly and definitely in the angle-sculptures of the long font in the north transept, the most interesting piece of work in the whole cathedral, in an antiquarian sense, and of much artistic value also. (See ante chap. ii. p. 71.)
