Beatus venter et ubera, &c. Luc. ii. 27.
Et quid si biberet Jesus vel ab ubere vestro?
Quid facit ad vestram, quod bibit ille, sitim?
Ubera mox sua et hic, ô quam non lactea! pandet;
E nato mater tum bibet ipsa suo.
Blessed be the paps which Thou hast sucked.
Suppose He had been tabled at thy teates,
Thy hunger feeles not what He eates:
He'l have His teat ere long—a bloody one;
The mother then must suck the Son. Cr.
CV.
In Christum vitem. Joan. xv. 1.
Ulmum vitis amat, quippe est et in arbore flamma,
Quam fovet in viridi pectore blandus amor:
Illam ex arboribus cunctis tu, vitis, amasti;
Illam, quaecunque est, quae crucis arbor erat.
Christ the true Vine (including the branches).
The vine clings lovingly unto the elm;
Love's flame draws thus a tree within its realm:
But most, O vine, thou lov'st, whate'er its name,
That tree from which the cross of Calvary came. G.