[Triplum]
Tuba sacre fidei
proprie dicta dei
preco arconorum
in theatris clamitat
quod racio hesitat
basis peccatorum.
Fatendum simpliciter
credendumque firmiter
morive necesse
deum unum in tribus
personis equalibus
et tres unam esse.
Virginem non semine
viri sed spiramine
verbi concepisse,
ipsam semper virginem;
deum atque hominum
mundo perperisse.
Sed transnaturalia
ista cum sint omnia
credentibus vita,
necis negligentibus,
nature quod gressibus
ratio potita
in premissis dubium
gignat et aururium.
Igitur nitetur
et fides per quam via
apud archana dia
clarior habetur
semper imitetur.
[Motetus]
In arboris empiro prospere
virginitas sedet puerpere.
Mediatrix fides in medio
cum stipite cecata ratio
insecuta septem sororibus
sophismata sua foventibus
hec ut scandat dum magis nititur.
Debilitas ramorum frangitur.
Petat ergo fidei dexteram
vel eternam nitetur perperam.
[Tenor]
VIRGO SUM.
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The trumpet of holy faith,
God’s own statements,
herald of mysteries,
sounds forth to the audiences
that Reason, the root of sin,
wavers.
One must die confessing
more simply, believing
more firmly in a God
[who is] one in three
equal persons,
and three in one.
And in a virgin conceiving not
by the seed of man but by
the spirit of the Word,
she remaining a virgin;
and in a God and man
born to the world.
But whereas all these
transcendental things are
the life of believers,
who need not fear death,
reason, acquired in nature
by steps, produces doubts
at the beginning, and
guesswork as it proceeds.
Thus, we should strive after faith,
through which we can have
a clearer road to
to the divine secrets,
and follow [faith] always.
At the top of the tree sits virginity
pleasantly, bearing a child.
In the middle is mediating faith,
while at the root, blind reason,
followed by her seven sisters [the liberal arts]
dwelling on their sophistries,
tries to climb in order to shine more brightly.
But [reason] is broken by the weakness of the branches.
Thus, she either asks for the hand of faith
or strives eternally in vain.
I am a virgin.
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