Weeping Crosse

Can any of your correspondents explain the origin of the figure contained in the following passage, or refer me to a similar use of it? It occurs in Florio's *Translation of Montaigne*, book iii. ch. 5. "Few men have wedded their sweethearts, their paramours, or mistresses, but have come home by Weeping Crosse, and ere long repented their bargain." [Nares tells us, on the authority of Howell's English Proverbs, p. 36.— "He that goes out with often losse, At last comes home by Weeping Crosse," that to return by Weeping Cross was a proverbial expression for deeply lamenting an undertaking, found…