Gregorius | sô | wîbes | güete | gezam | | as | (for a) woman's | goodness | was fitting |
668 | daz | ir | geburt | sô | ende | nam | | (so) that | (the) | birth | so | (to an) end | (came) |
| daz | der | nieman | wart | gewar | | that | (of) it | no one | was | aware |
| ez | was | ein | sun | daz | si | gebar | | it | was | a | son | that | she | bore |
671 | der | guote | sündære | | the | Good | Sinner |
| von | dem | disiu | mære | | with | whom | this | story |
| von | allerêrste | erhaben | sint | | _ | just now | begins | _ |
674 | ez | was | ein | wünneclîchez | kint | | he | was | a | delightful | child |
| ze | des | kindes | gebürte | | at | the | child's | birth |
| was | niemen | z- | -antwürte | | was | no one | _ | present |
677 | niuwan | dise | vrouwen | zwô | | except for | these | ladies | two |
| der | wirt | wart | dar | geladet | dô | | the | host | was | there | summoned | then |
| und | als | er | daz | kint | ersach | | and | when | he | the | child | saw |
680 | mit | den | vrouwen | er | des | jach | | with | the | ladies | he | this | agreed |
| daz | nie | z- | -er | werlde | kæme | | that | never | into | the | world | came |
| ein | kint | alsô | genæme | | a | child | so | pleasing |
683 | nû | wurden | si | alsô | drâte | | now | began | they | very | quickly |
| under | in | ze | râte | | among | themselves | to | deliberate |
| wie- | -z | verholn | möhte | sîn | | how | he | hidden | might | be |
686 | si | sprâchen | diz | schœne | kindelîn | | they | said | this | fair | little child |
| daz | wære | schedelich | verlorn | | him | (it) were | shameful | to lose |
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