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Erhard Oeglin. ""Now the depths of my heart"." Global Medieval Sourcebook.Transcription by Christopher Hutchinson .
"Yetz schaydens wee ist worden kund" | "Now the depths of my heart"
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"Yetz schaydens wee ist worden kund" | "Now the depths of my heart"
by Erhard Oeglin
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München 00082229 Rar.27 Stimme T f.29r
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Yetz schaydens wee ist worden kund / meins hertzen grund / Now the depths of my heart have discovered separation’s sorrow, des ich vor nye / dan erst durch dye / bin worden inn / hertz mut und synn / my heart, spirit and senses, which I have only experienced because of her, ward mir zerstrayt / gantz weit und prayt / were scattered far and wide: ich dacht ich stürb vor hertyenlayd. I thought I’d die of a broken heart.
Nun hat sich glück herwider kert / Now fortune has returned und mich ernert / vor schaydens pein / and saved me from separation’s pain, dardurch al mein / plut was betrübt / through which all my blood was dulled. glück hat geübt / in disem spil / Fortune has played its part in this game, darin ich vil / frewd lust und gnad erwerben wil. in which I will gain much joy, pleasure and favor.
Sölch frewd ytz niemer widerfart / ist mir gar hart / Now it’s very hard for me that such joy is gone forever. verkert in laid ich wider schayd / Turned to pain, I leave again; macht newes wee / noch mer dan ee / this brings new sorrow, even greater than before: mein hertz erkant / recht lieb befandt / my heart had come to know and had felt joy: erst thut mir schayden angstlich andt. only now separation brings me to despair.
Yetz schaydens wee ist worden kund / meins hertzen grund / Now the depths of my heart have discovered separation’s sorrow, des ich vor nye / dan erst durch dye / bin worden inn / hertz mut und synn / my heart, spirit and senses, which I have only experienced because of her, ward mir zerstrayt / gantz weit und prayt / were scattered far and wide: ich dacht ich stürb vor hertyenlayd. I thought I’d die of a broken heart.
Nun hat sich glück herwider kert / Now fortune has returned und mich ernert / vor schaydens pein / and saved me from separation’s pain, dardurch al mein / plut was betrübt / through which all my blood was dulled. glück hat geübt / in disem spil / Fortune has played its part in this game, darin ich vil / frewd lust und gnad erwerben wil. in which I will gain much joy, pleasure and favor.
Sölch frewd ytz niemer widerfart / ist mir gar hart / Now it’s very hard for me that such joy is gone forever. verkert in laid ich wider schayd / Turned to pain, I leave again; macht newes wee / noch mer dan ee / this brings new sorrow, even greater than before: mein hertz erkant / recht lieb befandt / my heart had come to know and had felt joy: erst thut mir schayden angstlich andt. only now separation brings me to despair.
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