Penitens Anima
Soul in Revolt
The penitent soul confesses its own evil ways, turns to fight the deceiver, and cries out to Queen Humility for healing grace.
I've come to see that all my ways are evil, and so I fled from you. But now, deceiver, I'm fighting against you. Then you, O Queen Humility, help me with your remedy!1
Read the original Latin
Ego omnes vias meas malas esse cognovi, et ideo fugi a te. Modo autem, o illusor, pugno contra te. Inde tu, O regina Humilitas, tuo medicamine adiuva me!
Notes
- 1 ↩Inde rendered as 'then' (inferential) rather than 'from there' (local), following the candidate gloss's note that it may carry inferential force in this context.
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