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Title: Lays of the Minnesingers or German troubadours of the Twelfth and thirteenth Centuries illustrated by specimens of the contemporary lyric poetry of Provence and other parts of Europe: with historical and critical notices, and engravings from the MS. of the Minnesingers in the King's Library at Paris, and from other sources
Year: 1825 (1820s)
Authors: (Taylor, Edgar)
Subjects: Minnesingers
Publisher: London, Longman
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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train The birds sweet throats ; their tuneful notesNo more shall charm her ear again.Plain. When on the ^/a?n she doth appear,My flowrets gay shall fade away ;Thus crost, perchance to thee she 11 turn againher ear. 174? MINNESINGERS. Mead. And I, the Mead, will help thee too ;Gazing on me, her fate shall be,That my bright charms shall bUnd her view.Wood. And I, the Greenwood, break my bowersWhen the fair maid flies to my shade,Till she to thee her smile restores.Sun. I Sun, will pierce her frozen heart, Till from the blaze of my bright rays,Vainly she flies :—then learns a gentler part. Love. I, Love, will banish instantly Whatever dear and sweet I bear.Till she in pity turn to thee.Poet. Alas ! must all her joys thus flee ? Nay, rather I would joyless die.How great soeer my pain may be.Love. Seekst thou revenge? saith Love, then at my nod The paths of joy shall close, so lately trod.Poet.Nay then ! Oh leave her not thus shorn of bliss ;Leave me to die forlorn, so hers be happiness.
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AlUBKIECHT MAJRSCHAIL Vo MAIPIRECMTSWIILIE. Innd/jn.fuhUshed by lonqmari-i C^May.2820. ALBERT OF R APRE CHTS WE IL. 175 ALBERT,MARSHALL OF RAPRECHTSWEIL. Of this minstrel we know nothing ; but we may-suppose, from the scene chosen for the illustration ofhis songs in the Manesse ^IS., that he was of somerenown in arms. Aber huget mir der muot Zwar es meyet meyen bluot; &c. Once more mounts my spirit gay,Once more comes the bloom of May-See, upon the branches springGreen buds, almost opening,And the nightingale so fair,Sings herself to slumber there.Honord be the songstress dear,She who trains the branches here ;Ever must she happy beWho inspires the birds and meWith this gladsome gaiety. She has angel loveliness ;Would she deign my heart to bless,She that sends me health and joy,Blest above all bliss were I, 176 MINNESINGERS. Heaven would then be mine on earth,For in her lies all my mirth.With each lovely colour sheDecks her fair face daintily ;Red, and white, and auburn, thereBlen

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