XIII.

Joan. i. 23.

Vox ego sum, dicis: tu vox es, sancte Joannes?

Si vox es, sterilis cur tibi mater erat?

Quam fuit ista tuae mira infoecundia matris!

In vocem sterilis rarior esse solet.

_St. John the Baptist a voice._

'I am a voice, a voice,' says holy John.

If so, how should thy mother barren be?

This is unfruitfulness to muse upon;

Tongue-barren women we so seldom see! G.

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