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Fourth stanzaStanze: we are already familiar with the risus; here, it is Mary’s mother Anne who is laughing;56 she is sometimes prefigured and replaced, on account of the identity of names, by Anne (Hannah), mother of Samuel,57 who first wept and later exulted; both belong to the series of long barren and lately blessed mothers, a series beginning with Sarah, the laughing mother. Anne’s laughter marks Mary as the mater ducis, and for Christ the dux, Moses is introduced. The departure of the Jews from Egypt (Exodus and Ps. 113) is one of the fundamental figures of the salvation through Christ; lutum, mud, is one of the symbols of oppression and servitude (Exodus I, 14 and 5, 7: lutum, later, palea)58 with figurative meaning; as Moses liberated his people from servitude in Egypt, Christ liberated mankind from the servitude of sin and perdition.

Fifth stanzaStanze: this passage, with its elegant poetical use of sounds (gaudet ludens, ludus prudens in te laudat), refers to David’s dance, when he brought the Ark of God into his city (II Sam. 6, 12ff.). The Ark figures Mary, and the manna kept in it (Exod. 16, 32–34, and Hebr. 9, 4) figures Christ; thus, David’s dance prefigures the glorification of Christ’s birth.