Gregorius | ringen | sîne | swære | | ease | his | hardship |
3811 | mit | senfter | buoze | | with | gentle | penance |
| daz | im | diu | riuwe | suoze | | (so) that | (for) him | _ | remorse | is sweetened |
| daz | reht | ist | alsô | swære | | the | law | ist | so | stern |
3814 | swer | dem | sündære | | whoever | the | sinner |
| ze | vaste | wil | nâch | jagen | | too | severely | will | _ | hound |
| daz | en- | -mac | der | lîp | niht | wol | vertragen | | that | _ | can | the | body | not | well | endure |
3817 | ob | er | genâde | suochen | wil | | if | he | grace | seek | will |
| gît | man | im | gâhes | buoze | vil | | (if) gives | one | him | rashly | penance | great |
| vil | lîhte | ein | man | dâ | von | verzaget | | (then) very | easily | a | man | _ | from it | will lose heart |
3820 | daz | er | sich | aber | gote | entsaget | | (so) that | he | _ | in turn | God | rejects |
| und | wirt | wider | des | tiuvels | kneht | | and | becomes again | _ | the | devil's | servant |
| dâ | von | gât | gnâde | vür | daz | reht | | _ | therefore | comes | mercy | before | the | law |
3823 | sus | kunde | er | rehte | mâze | geben | | so | could | he | proper | moderation | impose |
| über | geistlîchez | leben | | on | spiritual | life |
| dâ | mite | der | sündære | genas | | _ | whereby | the | sinner | was saved |
3826 | und | der | guote | stæte | was | | and | the | good (one) | steadfast | was |
| von | sîner | starken | lêre | | through | his | powerful | teaching |
| sô | wuohs | diu | gotes | êre | | thus | grew | _ | God's | honor |
3829 | vil | harte | starclîche | | very | very | mightily |
| in | rœmischem | rîche | | in (the) | Roman | Empire |
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