Heinrich | daz | was | ein | vrîer | bûman | | this | was | a | free | farmer |
270 | der | vil | selten | ie | gewan | | who | _ | never | before | met with |
| dehein | grôz | ungemach | | any | great | hardship |
| daz | andern | gebûren | doch | geschach | | which | other | farmers | indeed | befell |
273 | die | wirs | geherret | wâren | | who | worse | lieged | were |
| und | si | die | niht | verbâren | | and | them | they | not | spared |
| beide | mit | stiure | und | mit | bete | | both | from | taxes | and | from | levies |
276 | swaz | dirre | gebûre | gerne | tete | | whatever | this | farmer | on his own | provided |
| des | dûhte | sînen | herren | genuoc | | that | considered | his | lord | sufficient |
| dar | zuo | er | in | übertruoc | | _ | in addition | he | him | protected |
279 | daz | er | deheine | arbeit | | that | he | no | oppression |
| von | vremedem | gewalte | leit | | from | outside | forces | suffered |
| des | en- | -was | deheiner | sîn | gelîch | | consequently | _ | was | no one | of his | equal |
282 | in | dem | lande | alsô | rîch | | in | the | land | so | well off |
| ze | dem | gebûren | zôch | sich | | to | this | farmer | withdrew | himself |
| sîn | herre | der | arme | Heinrich | | his | lord | _ | poor | Heinrich |
285 | swaz | er | im | hete | ê | gespart | | whatever | he | him | had | before | spared |
| wie | wol | daz | nû | gedienet | wart | | how | well | that | now | repaid | was |
| und | wie | schône | er | sîn | genôz | | and | how | wonderfully | he | from him | benefited |
288 | wan | in | vil | lützel | des | verdrôz | | because | him | at all | nothing | of that | disturbed |
| swaz | im | geschach | durch | in | | whatever | him | happened | for | his sake |
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