“Conscience then with Patience passed, Pilgrims as it were,
Then had Patience, as pilgrims have, in his poke vittailes.”
Piers Ploughman’s Vision, xiii. 215.
[186] Grose’s “Gloucestershire,” pl. lvii.
[187] Girdle.
[188] One of the two pilgrims in our first cut, p. 158, carries a palm branch in his hand; they represent the two disciples at Emmaus, who were returning from Jerusalem.
[189] The existence of several accounts of the stations of Rome in English prose and poetry as early as the thirteenth century (published by the Early English Text Society), indicates the popularity of this pilgrimage.
[190] Innocente III., Epist. 536, lib. i., t. c., p. 305, ed. Baluzio. (Dr. Rock’s “Church of our Fathers.”)
[191] “Church of our Fathers,” vol. iii. p. 438, note.
[192] It is seen on the scrip of Lydgate’s Pilgrim in the woodcut on p. 163. See a paper on the Pilgrim’s Shell, by Mr. J. E. Tennant, in the St. James’s Magazine, No. 10, for Jan., 1862.
[193] “Anales de Galicia,” vol. i. p. 95. Southey’s “Pilgrim to Compostella.”
[194] “Anales de Galicia,” vol. i. p. 96, quoted by Southey, “Pilgrim to Compostella.”