“Lady, in the Virgin’s chastity the great love is reached.”
“That may be—with me it is not the highest.”
“You, Lady, might cool yourself in martyr-blood.”
“I have been martyred many a day.”
“In the counsel of Father Confessors, the pure live gladly.”
“Good is their counsel, but it helps not here.”
“Great safety would you find in the Apostles’ wisdom.”
“Wisdom I have myself—to choose the best.”
“Lady, bright are the angels, and lovely in love’s hue; to cool yourself, be lifted up with them.”
“The bliss of angels brings me love’s woe, unless I see their lord, my Bridegroom.”