Klage | daz | mir | bezzer | wære | | that | (for) me | better | (it) were |
397 | mit | êren | genomen | den | tôt | | with | honor | to be taken | (by) | death |
| dan | als | unendehaftiu | nôt | | than | such | boundless | distress |
| dâ | dû | mich | herze | in | hâst | brâht | | which | you | (upon) me | heart | _ | have | brought |
400 | durch | waz | hâst | dû | dir- | -s | erdâht | | _ | why | have | you | (for) yourself | it | devised |
| daz | dû | mich | alsô | wellest | twelen | | (so) that | you | (by) me | so | will | tarry |
| daz | dû | mich | lebenden | mügest | quelen | | (so) that | you | me | living | can | torment |
403 | möhte | ich | nû | wizzen | daz | | could | I | now | know | (this) |
| wâ | von | ich | dînen | haz | | _ | how | I | your | ill will |
| von | êrste | gearnet | hæte | | _ | first | earned | _ |
406 | vil | gerne | ich | dich | bæte | | very | gladly | I | you | would ask |
| daz | dû | ez | durch | got | verkürest | | that | you | it | for the sake of | God | abandon |
| und | uns | beide | niht | verlürest | | and | us | both | not | destroy |
409 | wan | ez | dir | schaden | beginnet | | for | it | (to) you | harm | will (bring) |
| swenne | dir | mîn | zerinnet | | if | (to) you | (I) | am lost |
| wer | sol | den | strît | nû | scheiden | | who | shall | the | argument | now | settle |
412 | under | uns | beiden | | between | us | both |
| wan | du | tuo | ez | durch | gotes | êre | | why not | you | do | it | for | God's | honor |
| und | rich | dich | niht | ze | sêre | | and | avenge | yourself | not | too | harshly |
415 | habe | ich | dir | iht | getân | | have | I | (to) you | anything | done |
| des | lâ | mich | dir | ze | buoze | stân | | (for) it | let | me | (to) you | _ | penance | (do) |
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