LXXI. O fili dilectissime
The Virgin's Lament and Plea
The Virgin addresses her beloved Son, recalling her divine conception and the music of creation within her womb, and pleads for the salvation of the virgins who follow them.
O most beloved son, whom I carried in my womb from the power of the surrounding wheel of holy divinity, who created me and arranged all my members, and established within my womb every kind of music in all the flowers of tones: now, me and you, O sweetest son, a great crowd of virgins follows, whom through your help deign to save.
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O fili dilectissime, quem genui in visceribus meis de vi circueuntis rote sancte divinitatis, que me creavit et omnia membra mea ordinavit et in visceribus meis omne genus musicorum in omnibus floribus tonorum constituit: Nunc me et te, o fili dulcissime, multa turba virginum sequitur, quas per adiutorium tuum salvare dignare.
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