Santa María amar
deuemos muit’e rogar
que ssa graça ponna
sobre nos, porque errar
non nos faça nen pecar
o demo sen vergonna.

Porende uos contarey
d’un miragre que achei
que por hua badessa
fez a Madre do gran Rei
ca, per com’eu apres’ei
era-xe sua essa.
Mas o demo enartar
a foi, porque emprennar
s’ouue d’un de Bolonna
ome, que de recadar
auia, et de guardar,
seu feit’e sa besonna.

Santa María amar. . .

As monias, pois entender
foron esto et saber
ouueron gran lediça;
ca porque lles non sofrer
queria de mal fazer
auian-lle mayça.
E foron-a acusar
ao Bispo do logar,
et él ben de Collonna
chegou y; et pois chamar
a fez ueo sen uagar
leda e mui risonna.

Santa María amar. . .

Unto Holy Mary we
Owe both piety and love;
For She can forestall evil;
Those who love Her will go free
Though intermittently
Held up by the Devil.

I am honored to bring-
By way of illustrating
To your attention now
A miraculous thing
The Mother of a King
Of Heaven, who knows how!,
Performed in a convent;
The abbess only meant
To do good; but a man
From Bologna had sent
Her from him pregnant;
She was his companion.

Unto Holy Mary we. . .

The nuns were overjoyed,
Not being devoid
Of an instinct for sin,
And the abbess annoyed
Them, for she employed
The strictest discipline.
And to cast a first stone,
They made her story known,
And the Bishop was sent
For and came from Cologne,
And she went in alone
Before him, radiant.

Unto Holy Mary we. . .