℟. Mother Eve, consenting to the enemy, removed herself together with her husband from glory, exchanging life for death; whose happy Daughter, obeying God, hath overthrown the enemy, hath restored glory, hath driven away death, * And hath brought back life.
   ℣. Praise and glory be unto God, Who to a frail mother gave such a Daughter, who hath also been made the Mother of her Creator, * And hath brought back life.

   Mulier eligitur,
    Cujus serpens nititur
            Pungere calcaneum:
    Sed fortis et sapiens,
    Hosti non consentiens,
            Præcavet aculeum.
Caput anguis hæc contrivit,
Cujus carni counivit
        Se majestas Filii;
    Sexus autem fragilis,
    Sexus seductibilis
        Vires frangit impii.

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    Of a woman choice was made,
    Whom that serpent old essayed
            In the heel to wound and tear:
    But she, wise, and valiant too,
    Made no compact with the foe,
            Of his deadly sting aware.
She, with whose flesh to be blended
God’s Son’s glory condescended,
         Bruised the subtle serpent’s head:
    Woman though but weak and frail,
    Doth to crush hell’s power avail,
                                    Woman, easily misled!