_Beatus venter et ubera, &c._ Luc. ii. 27.
Et quid si biberet Jesus vel ab ubere vestro?
Quid facit ad vestram, quod bibit ille, sitim?
Ubera mox sua et hic, o quam non lactea! pandet;
E nato mater tum bibet ipsa suo.
_Blessed be the paps which Thou hast sucked._
Suppose He had been tabled at thy teates,
Thy hunger feeles not what He eates:
He'l have His teat ere long--a bloody one;
The mother then must suck the Son. CR.