Klage | ein | rehter | slîchære | | a | pure | sneak |
815 | vil | lêre | ich | an | dir | verlôs | | (a) great deal (of) | advice | I | on | you | have wasted |
| ich | züge | dich | als | lîhte | muoterlôs | | I | could raise | you | (just) as | easily | motherless |
| ziph | welch | ein | hövescher | lîp | | phooey | what (a waste for) | a | courtly | body |
818 | welchen | tiuvel | hæte | ein | wîp | | (by) which | devil | had | a | woman |
| selher | wîs | an | dir | ersehen | | such a | manner | in | you | seen |
| daz | sî | dir | liebe | lieze | geschehen | | that | she | (from) you | love | would let | happen |
821 | sich | lîp | mir | ist | alsô | wê | | look | body | (I) | (am) | just as | (in) pain |
| sam | dem | bluomen | under | dem | snê | | as | the | flower | under | the | snow |
| der | in | dem | merzen | ûf | gât | | which | in | _ | March | _ | comes up |
824 | wan | er | niht | ganzer | helfe | hât | | for (if) | it | nothing | (of) sufficient | help | has |
| dannoch | von | der | sumerzît | | at that time | from | _ | summer |
| er | duldet | manigen | herten | strît | | it | will suffer | many | hard | challenges |
827 | von | des | winters | gewalt | | from | _ | winter's | power |
| er | tuot | im | dicke | ze | kalt | | it | (is) | (for) it | often | too | cold |
| unde | sô | er | wære | | and | just as | it | would be |
830 | schœne | ob | in | verbære | | beautiful | if | it | would be spared |
| des | winters | meisterschaft | | (a) | winter's | dominance |
| sô | benimt | er | im | sîne | kraft | | then | robs | it | it | (of) its | strength |
833 | und | trîbet | in | von | sînem | rehte | | and | keeps | it | from | its | right |
| der | winter | und | sîne | knehte | | _ | winter | and | its | servants |
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