Stockholm.
_Christ's-cross Row_ (Vol. iii., p. 330.).--Quarles, in his _Emblems_,
b. 2. 12, p. 124., edition 1812, has the following passage: "Christ's
cross is the christ-cross of all our happiness," _i. e._ the alphabet,
the beginning, perhaps the alpha and omega. Grose, in his _Olio_, p.
195., 1796, relates the following story:
"An Irishman explaining the reason why the Alphabet is called the
Criss-cross-Rowe, said it was because Christ's cross was
_prefixed_ at the beginning and end of it."