Garden, Fount and Gate

Hortus clausus es, virgo, serva fructus tuos: non ascendat in te spinae, sed uvae tuae floreant. Hortus clausus es, filia, nemo auferat sepem tui pudoris: quia scriptum est: Et destruentem sepem mordebit serpens. Sed illam solam auferat, de qua dictum est: Quid incisa est sepis? Nemo parietem tuam destruat, ne sis in conculationem. Paradisus es, virgo, Evam cave. Fons signatus es, virgo, nemo aquam tuam polluat, nemo conturbet; ut imaginem tuam in fonte tuo semper attendas. Porta clausa es, virgo, nemo aperiat januam tuam, quam semel clausit Sanctus et Verus, qui habet clavim David, qui aperit et nemo claudit: claudit et nemo aperit. Aperuit tibi Scripturas, nemo eas claudat: clausit pudorem tuum, nemo aperiat eum. Sanctus Ambrosius Mediolanensis, De Institutione Virginis et Sanctae Mariae Virginitate Perpetua ad Eusebium, Caput IX Source: Migne PL 14.321b-c

You are an enclosed garden, 1 O virgin, guard your fruits; let no thorns spring up from you, but let your grapes flourish. You are a closed garden, O daughter, let no one break down your fence, because it is written: 'And the fence destroyed the serpent shall strike.' 2 But let only him remove it concerning which it is said, 'What a breach you have made for yourself.' 3 Let no one destroy your wall, lest you be trampled upon. You are paradise, O virgin, beware of Eve. You are sealed fountain, O virgin, let no one pollute your waters, let no one trouble them, that you may always attend to your image in the fountain. You are closed gate, O virgin, let no one open it, which He who is holy and true has closed, He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one closes, He who closes and no one opens. 4 He has opened the Scriptures to you, let no one close them, he has closed up your modesty, let no one open it. Saint Ambrose, On The State of the Virgin And the Perpetual Virginity of the Virgin Mary, To Eusebius, Chap 9 1 Song 4.12 2 Eccles 10.8 3 Gen 38.29 4 Apoc 3.7