... when she asked that she might
touch and kiss him and be buried with him, and threw herself upon his body, soaking his face with her tears.tantes sic affatur
sustinete <quod> paululum
dolorem\ meum plangam
<et> quod meum carum filium <dulcissimum>
deos\culer et tangam.
Michi meum dulcissimum <carissimum>
fi\lium subtrahere nolite;
si sepeliri debeat
me\ secum sepelite.
Accessit sic exanimis
se supra\ corpus iecit;
et sacrum vultum rigans <lacrimis>
la\crimis defecit <ubertim madefecit>.
Responsum.
Dum videt supplicia
prolis\ exquisita
torquetur angustia
fletu est attrita.\
triduario spacio
dum langueret ita.
Squalet\ eius facies
nuper iam posita [sopita].
Versus.
Pena sic exasperans\
numquam est audita.
longe sibi carior
extat mors quam vita.
Squalet eius facies.
Iube domine benedicere.
Nobis pacifica tremebundum virgo Maria.
Third lesson, Filii presencia.
The lesson (HL, 2, p 145) invokes the grief of the Virgin Mary, deprived of her son, when she reproached the archangel Gabriel, saying that that his words of salutation and annunciation had been contradicted: that she was now filled with bitterness instead of grace; that the Lord was not with her but in his tomb.
Lectio\ tercia.
Filii presencia
mater destituta
Ga\brielem archangelum <nuntium>
sic est allo\cuta.
ave plena gracia
michi protulisti,\
nunc amaritudine
sum impleta <repleta> tristi.
subse\quenter inquiens
dominus est tecum.
Heu iacet\ in tumulo,
non est ultra mecum.
Omnis be\nedictio
quam tu spopondisti;
est michi contra\ria
propter mortem Christi.
Tu autem.
Responsum
Dum vide\
