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OMNIANA.
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Mas misterio tan superno
catalle hasta el hondon,
no puede nuestra razon,
tino solo Dios eterno.
Harto nos basta Señor
tener por la fe creydo,
quefue de Virgen nascido,
y aquello fue lo mejor.

Y assi querer alcançallo
buscando la suma causa,
esto baste para pausa,
y loallo y contemplallo;
Y aquella sancta donzella,
sera muy sano consejo
contemplar la coma espejo
y remirar nos en ella.

Some of these reasons, like many other passages of this extraordinary book, could not be expressed in our language without shocking the reader. Nothing, however, is more evident than that the Admiral had no thought of irreverence in proposing such questions, and that the Friar replied to them not only with seriousness, but even with a sense of devotion.