Chapter

 1 II   |     future dissolution is more bitter, than to the just. Oh, how
 2 III  |       virgin. For Mary means a bitter sea, star of the sea, the
 3 III  |    interpreted lady. Mary is a bitter sea to the demons; to men
 4 III  |        Mary is interpreted: "a bitter sea"; this is excellently
 5 III  |         and in what way she is bitter, and how she is at once
 6 III  |       she is at once a sea and bitter. Mary is a sea by the abundant
 7 III  |      her graces; and Mary is a bitter sea by submerging the devil.
 8 III  |  Passion of her Son; Mary is a bitter sea by her power over the
 9 III  |      but call me Mara, that is bitter, for the Most High hath
10 III  |      was at once beautiful and bitter, signified Mary, beautiful
11 III  |        of the Holy Spirit, but bitter by the Passion of her Son.~
12 III  |        in mind; the one by the bitter death of the cross, the
13 III  |       in what manner she was a bitter sea in the death of her
14 III  |        consider that Mary is a bitter sea to the devil and to
15 III  |        him, as the Red Sea was bitter to the Egyptians submerged
16 III  |     sea" (Ex. XV, 19.) Oh, how bitter and full of fear is this
17 III  |      to the Egyptians! Oh, how bitter and full of fear is this
18 III  | overflowing graces, how she is bitter by the vehemence of the
19 III  |        to the devils Mary is a bitter sea by the power she has
20 III  |       hell. Also how Mary is a bitter sea, the Star of the Sea,
21 III  |      to Mary and say: "O Mary, Bitter Sea, help us, that we may
22 III  |        may be plunged into the bitter sea of penance! O Mary,
23 IV   |       This sword signifies the bitter Passion and death of her
24 XVIII|      sweet a fruit into a most bitter judgment for themselves,