... and asking that by the Virgin’s merits and intercession, we may, like her, rejoice in his presence.
tacione ac miraculorum ostensione multipliciter\ letificasti quique [quinque] eiusdem matris et virginis gau\dia ipso filio tuo a morte resurgente et ad celos\ carnaliter ascendente ipsamque in celis collocante\ gloriose cumulasti, presta quesumus ut ad illud in\effabile gaudium quo tecum [g] assumpta gaudet in\ celis eius meritis et intercessione pervenire va\leamus. Per eundem dominum nostrum.\
Hymn, Salve mater dolorosa.
A hymn to the Virgin Mary (RH, 2, pp 511-2; see Stabat mater, HL, 2, pp 147-54; AH, 54, pp 312-17; see SA, pp 259-60). The author invokes the Virgin as the mother grieving at the cross on which her son hung, her soul pierced with a sword. He asks who would not weep for her, as she watched her son suffering and dying for the sins of his people.
Salve mater dolorosa
iuxta crucem la\crimosa
dum pendebat filius.
Cuius\ animam gementem
consternatam et dolentem
per\transivit gladius.
O quam tristis et afflicta
fu\it illa benedicta
mater unigenti.
Que merebat\ et dolebat
et tremebat cum videbat
nati penes [penas] in\cliti.
Quis est homo qui non fleret
matrem Christi\ si videret
in tanto supplicio.
Quis non posset con\tristari
piam matrem contemplari
dolentem\ cum filio.
Pro peccatis sue gentis
Ihesum vidit in tor\mentis
et flagellis subditum.
Vidit suum dul\cem natum
morientem desolatum
cum emisit spiritum.\
Eya mater fons amoris
me sentire vim do-\
