Nesciens mater (Walter Lambe)

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Nesciens mater virgo virum
peperit sine dolore
salvatorem saeculorum.
Ipsum regem angelorum
sola virgo lactabat,
ubera de caelo plena.

Knowing no man, the virgin mother
bore, without pain,
the savior of the world.
Him, the king of angels,
only the virgin suckled,
breasts filled by heaven.