[10] The pax is a piece of board having the image of Christ upon the cross on it, which the people used to kiss after the service was ended, that ceremony being considered the kiss of peace.
[11] The admirers of Robert Burns will remember the lines:
“——bent on winning borough towns,
Come shaking hands wi’ wabster loons,
And kissing barefit carlins.”
[12] An actual expression of a child.
[13] Francesca da Rimini.
[14] Mr. Longfellow translates the passage thus:
“Alone we were and without any fear.
Full many a time our eyes together drew