Klage | ez | wære | under | friunden | guot | verlân | | it | were | among | friends | better | left undone |
979 | ouch | zæme | ez | einem | meister | wol | | also | would be becoming | it | (for) a | master | more |
| swâ | er | iemen | lêren | sol | | wherever | he | anyone | teach | will |
| tugent | oder | êre | | (about) virtue | and | honor |
982 | daz | er | im | die | lêre | | that | he | (to) him | the | teachings |
| mit | zühten | vor | trüege | | with | courtesy | _ | would deliver |
| daz | wære | iedoch | gefüege | | this | would be | after all | appropriate |
985 | nû | strâfest | dû | mich | als | dînen | kneht | | now | punish | you | me | like | your | servant |
| ez | was | ie | under | friunden | reht | | it | was | always | among | friends | proper |
| daz | sî | scheltwort | vermiten | | that | they | abusive language | avoid |
988 | unde | mit | vil | guoten | siten | | and | with | very | good | manners |
| zuo | ein | ander | giengen | | to | one | another | went |
| und | sich | bî | handen | viengen | | and | (one another) | by | (the) hand | took |
991 | swaz | einem | an | dem | andern | war | | whatever | (to) one | to | the | other | caused displeasure |
| daz | sagete | er | im | vil | gar | | that | would tell | he | him | most | completely |
| und | bat | in | ez | mîden | | and | ask | him | it | to avoid |
994 | daz | möht | ein | friunt | erlîden | | that | could | a | friend | endure |
| unde | was | er | danne | ein | man | | and | were | he | then | a | man |
| der | ie | guoten | sin | gewan | | who | ever | good | sense | had |
997 | sô | meinete | er | ez | ie | alsô | | so | thought | he | it | ever | also |
| und | verstüende | sich | der | triuwen | dô | | and | understood | himself | (as) | (as) loyalty | then |
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