A Salutation to the Virtues

Hail, Queen Wisdom!
May the Lord protect You
with Your Sister, holy pure Simplicity!
Lady Holy Poverty, may the Lord protect You,
with Your Sister, holy Humility!
Lady Holy Charity, may the Lord protect You
with Your Sister, holy Obedience.
Most holy Virtues, may the Lord proterct all of You
from Whom You come and proceed.
There is surely no one in the whole world
who can possess any one of You without dying first.
Whoever possesses one and does not offend the others possesses all.
Whoever offends one does not possess any and offends all.
And each one confounds vice and sin.
Holy Wisdom confounds Satan and all his cunning.
Pure Holy Simplicity confounds all the wisdom
of this world and the wisdom of the body.
Holy Poverty confounds the desire for riches, greed, and the cares of this world.
Holy Humility confounds pride, all people
who are in the world and all that is in the world.
Holy Charity confounds every diabolical
and carnal temptation and every carnal fear.
Holy Obedience confounds every corporal
and carnal wish, binds its mortified body 
to obedience of the Spirit
and obedience to one's brother,
so that it is subject and submissive to everyone
in the world, not only to men
but to every beast and wild animal as well,
that they may do whatever they want with it 
insofar as it has been given to them from above
by the Lord.