Videtur opportunum huic Historiae etiam hymnum virginitatis inserere, quem ante annos plurimos in laudem ac praeconium eiusdem reginae ac sponsae Christi, et ideo veraciter reginae, quia sponsae Christi, elegiaco metro composuimus; et imitari morem sacrae scripturae, cuius historiae carmina plurima indita, et haec metro ac versibus constat esse composita.
It seemeth convenient to put also in this History an hymn of virginity, which many years past we made in the elegiac metre in praise and laudation of the same queen and spouse of Christ, and therefore verily a queen, for that she is the spouse of Christ; and herein to follow the custom of Holy Scripture, in the history whereof many songs are put in among, which were, as is well known, made in metre and verse.
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