Gregorius | des | ergreif | er | ie | den | houbetlist | | (of) this | grasped | he | always | the | essentials |
1193 | dar | nâch | las | er | von | lêgibus | | _ | after this | read | he | in | 'legibus' |
| und | daz | kint | wart | alsus | | and | the | child | became | thus |
| in | dem | selben | liste | | in | the | same | discipline |
1196 | ein | edel | lêgiste | | a | fine | jurist |
| diu | kunst | sprichet | von | der | ê | | (this) | knowledge | concerns | _ | the | law |
| er | hete | noch | gelernet | mê | | he | would have | still | learned | more |
1199 | wan | daz | er | wart | geirret | dr- | -an | | except | that | he | was | prevented | _ | from it |
| als | ich | iu | wol | gesagen | kan | | as | I | (to) you | indeed | explain | can |
| ez | leit | der | vischære | | _ | had suffered | the | fisher |
1202 | von | armuot | grôze | swære | | from | poverty | great | hardship |
| sîne | huobe | lâgen | ûf | dem | sê | | his | acres | lay | on | the | sea |
| des | wart | sîm | lîbe | dicke | wê | | therefore | (it) was | (for) his | body | often | hard |
1205 | wande | er | sich | alsus | nerte | | for | he | himself | so | feed |
| sîniu | kint | erwerte | | his | children | protected |
| dem | bittern | hunger | alle | tage | | (for) _ | bitter | hunger | _ | constantly |
1208 | niuwan | mit | sînem | bejage | | only | with | his | catch |
| ê | er | daz | kint | vunde | | before | he | the | child | found |
| ouch | wart | dâ | zestunde | | thereby | was | then | immediately |
1211 | wol | gesenftet | sîn | leben | | indeed | eased | his | life |
| dô | im | wurden | gegeben | | when | (to) him | was | given |
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