loven
feet, walking in opposite directions; 57, an eagle displayed
(unfinished); 58, head and shoulders of a man who upholds the
seat with his hands; 59, a rabbit regardant; 60, a two-legged
beast regarding its tail, which is formed of three oak-leaves on
one stem. _In the Library._--61, a man in hood and loose tunic,
kneeling on the ground and thrusting a spear down the throat of a
dragon; 62, a boy in gown, with long, wavy hair, lying on his
side and drawing a thorn out of his left foot (of coarse late
seventeenth-century work); 63, a dove or pigeon feeding her
young; 64, a sorrowful-looking king sitting cross-legged on a
cushion between two rampant griffins, who are secured by straps
buckled round their necks.

GLASS IN THE CHOIR.--Over the high altar is a superb specimen of the
Jesse window. It is so intricate, that at first nothing can be
distinguished in the glow of jewelled colour but the twining branches
of the vine, and a little time is needed to enter into the spirit of a
window that is all the more enduring for not being very obvious. The
following excellent description by Canon Church (in a sermon preached
in the cathedral on May Day 1890) will make the legend easy to
decipher:--

"In the central light are the foremost figures of the Bible story. At
the base is the recumbent figure of Jesse with name inscribed, with
head resting on hand as in meditation. From that figure, as from the
vine stem, issues upward the leading shoot, bearing upon it the
figures of the Virgin Mother crowned with ruby nimbus, and the Holy
Child with gold nimbus, both under a golden canopy. Above, in line, is
the Crucifixion. On either side, the waving tendrils of the vine
shoots intertwine themselves in rings of light round figures of those
who prepared the way for the advent of the Word Incarnate. On the
lower tier, in line with Jesse, are, we may believe, the ancestors of
Jesse. Amminadab and Obed are inscribed on two of the pedestals--others
are nameless. Stately figures they are in face and form, in flowing
mantles of green, and ruby and gold, like Arab chiefs, some with the
Arab head-covering such as is worn to-day--figures such as some artist
in the last crusading host might have seen and designed, so different
from the conventional portraiture of Bible characters.

"In the second tier are the Kings and Prophets chosen to represent the
heralds of the Babe of Bethlehem, the Word Incarnate.