Heinrich | dan | ungeburt | und | untugent | | than | low birth | and | worthlessness |
722 | unser | leben | und | unser | jugent | | our | life | and | our | youth |
| ist | ein | nebel | und | ein | stoup | | are | _ | fog | and | _ | dust |
| unser | stæte | bibet | als | ein | loup | | our | constancy | trembles | like | a | leaf |
725 | er | ist | ein | vil | verschaffen | gouch | | he | is | a | very | misbegotten | fool |
| der | gerne | in | sich | vazzet | rouch | | who | gladly | into | himself | gathers | smoke |
| ez | sî | wîp | ode | man | | it | be | woman | or | man |
728 | der | diz | niht | wol | bedenken | kan | | who | this | not | certainly | realize | can |
| und | der | werlte | volgende | ist | | and | the | world | chasing after | is |
| wan | uns | ist | über | den | vûlen | mist | | because | for us | is | over | the | rotten | dung |
731 | der | phelle | gespreitet | | an | expensive coverlet | spread |
| swen | nû | der | blic | verleitet | | whomever | now | the | brilliance | leads astray |
| der | ist | z- | -er | helle | geborn | | he | is | for | _ | hell | born |
734 | und | en- | -hât | niht | verlorn | | and | _ | has | nothing | lost |
| wan | beide | sêle | unde | lîp | | other than | both | soul | as well as | body |
| nu | gedenket | sæligez | wîp | | now | remember | dear | woman |
737 | müeterlîcher | triuwe | | motherly | loyalty |
| und | senftet | iuwer | riuwe | | and | ease | your | grief |
| die | ir | dâ | habet | umbe | mich | | which | you | there | have | because of | me |
740 | so | bedenket | ouch | der | vater | sich | | then | reconsiders (it) | also | (my) | father | _ |
| ich | weiz | wol | daz | er | mir | heiles | gan | | I | know | well | that | he | me | salvation | wishes |
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