Erec | dû | bist | vil | wol | ze | mir | gehît | | you | would be | very | well | to | me | married |
5895 | wan | nimest- | -û | mich | enzît | | why not | take | you | me | at once |
| sît | daz | dû | mich | doch | nemen | muost | | since | that | you | me | anyhow | take | must |
| sô | râte | ich | daz | dû- | -z | iezuo | tuost | | so | advise | I | that | you | it | right now | do |
5898 | ich | gezim | dir | wol | ze | wîbe | | I | am appropriate | (for) you | certainly | as | (a) wife |
| ich | hân- | -z | noch | an | dem | lîbe | | I | have | _ | still | on | (my) | body |
| beide | schœne | unde | jugent | | both | beauty | and | youth |
5901 | ich | bin | an | der | besten | tugent | | I | am | with | the | best | virtues |
| dir- | -n | mac | mit | mir | niht | wesen | ze | gâch | | you | _ | may | for | me | not | be | too | quick |
| nû | waz | touc | ich | dir | her | nâch | | now | what | am good | I | (for) you | _ | later |
5904 | sô | beide | alter | unde | leit | | when | both | age | and | grief |
| mir | schœne | unde | jugent | verseit | | me | beauty | and | youth | have denied |
| nû | waz | sol | ich | dir | danne | | now | what | can do | I | (for) you | then |
5907 | noch | zæme | ich | guotem | manne | | still | am suited | I | (for a) noble | man |
| dô | si | der | rede | vil | getete | | when | she | the | words | a great deal | did |
| und | si | den | Tôt | mit | ir | bete | | and | she | _ | death | with | her | pleading |
5910 | niht | mohte | überwinden | | not | could | persuade |
| noch | ir | willen | vinden | | nor | her | will | get |
| daz | er | si | næme | in | sînen | gewalt | | that | he | her | take | in | his | power |
5913 | vil | wîplîchen | si | in | dô | schalt | | very | womanly | she | him | then | scolded |
| als | ir | der | wille | gebôt | | as | her | (her) | will | ordered |
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