• The staff wreathed with palm, the cockleshell in the hat, and the sandal-shoon were all marks of the pilgrim, showing he had been beyond sea and in the Holy Land. Thus in the old ballad of “The Friar of Orders Gray”:⁠— “And how should I your truelove know From many another one? O by his cockle-hat and staff, And by his sandal-shoone.” In the Vita Nuova , Mr. Norton’s Tr. , p. 71, is this passage:⁠— “Moreover, it is to be known that the people who travel in the service of the Most High are called by three distinct terms. Those who go beyond the sea, whence often they bring back the palm, are called palmers . Those who go to the house of Galicia are called pilgrims , because the burial-place of St. James was more distant from his country than that of any other of the Apostles. And those are called romei who go to Rome.” ↩
• How far Philosophy differs from Religion. Isaiah 4:8:⁠— “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” ↩
• Noon of the Fourth Day of Purgatory. ↩