• The row of seats which divides the Rose horizontally, and crosses the two vertical lines of division, made by the seat of the Virgin Mary and those of the other Hebrew women on one side, and on the other the seats of John the Baptist and of the other saints of the New Testament beneath him. ↩
• That is to say, by the faith of their parents, by circumcision, and by baptism, as explained line 76 et seq. ↩
• Festinata gente , dying in infancy, and thus hurried into the life eternal. Shakespeare, King Lear , III 7:⁠— “Advise the Duke, where you are going, to a most festinate preparation.” ↩
• Jacob and Esau. Genesis 25:22:⁠— “And the children struggled together within her.” And Romans 9:11:⁠— “For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to election, might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth.” ↩