Gregorius | der | guote | sündære | | the | Good | Sinner |
672 | von | dem | disiu | mære | | with | whom | this | story |
| von | allerêrste | erhaben | sint | | _ | just now | begins | _ |
| ez | was | ein | wünneclîchez | kint | | he | was | a | delightful | child |
675 | ze | des | kindes | gebürte | | at | the | child's | birth |
| was | niemen | z- | -antwürte | | was | no one | _ | present |
| niuwan | dise | vrouwen | zwô | | except for | these | ladies | two |
678 | der | wirt | wart | dar | geladet | dô | | the | host | was | there | summoned | then |
| und | als | er | daz | kint | ersach | | and | when | he | the | child | saw |
| mit | den | vrouwen | er | des | jach | | with | the | ladies | he | this | agreed |
681 | daz | nie | z- | -er | werlde | kæme | | that | never | into | the | world | came |
| ein | kint | alsô | genæme | | a | child | so | pleasing |
| nû | wurden | si | alsô | drâte | | now | began | they | very | quickly |
684 | under | in | ze | râte | | among | themselves | to | deliberate |
| wie- | -z | verholn | möhte | sîn | | how | he | hidden | might | be |
| si | sprâchen | diz | schœne | kindelîn | | they | said | this | fair | little child |
687 | daz | wære | schedelich | verlorn | | him | (it) were | shameful | to lose |
| nû | wære | aber | ez | geborn | | now | had been | however | he | born |
| mit | alsô | grôzen | sünden | | with | such | great | sin |
690 | ez | en- | -wolde | in | got | künden | | (unless) it | _ | would | (to) them | God | make known |
| daz | si | nie- | -ne | westen | | that | they | not | _ | would know |
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