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PATIENS EST, BENIGNA EST, NON INVIDET, NON EST PROCAX, NON INFLATUR, NON EST FASTIDIOSA, NON QUAERIT QUAE SUA SUNT, NON IRRITATUR, NON COGITAT MALUM, NON GAUDET DE INIUSTICIA, SED CONGAUDET VERITATI.[1]

[Charity] suffereth long, and is kind; envieth not; vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth

A woman breastfeeds a baby. Four cherubic figures climb on her and sit at her feet. Five scrolls appear either side of the woman. They read: (on her right) NON INFLATUR, NON EST PROCAX, NON INVIDET, BENIGNA EST PATIES EST (on her left) NON QUAERIT QUAE SUA SUNT, NON IRRITATUR, NON COGITAT MALUM, NON GAUDET DE INIUSTICIA, SED CONGAUDET VERITATI.
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En contemplant ceste femme, voyez
Que charité est une oeuvre excellente.
Qui dit, J’ay foy, sans charité, croyez
Que faussement d’estre Chrestien se vante.
Charité (dy-je) de foy vive naissante:
Non celle-la d’un Turc, ou infidele.
Car c’est peché, quoy qu’elle soit duisante,
A tout Chrestien qui n’attent salut d’elle.

Notes:

1.  1 Cor. 13:4-6

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