Gott grüss’ dich, schönes Jungfräulein,
Gott grüss dich, Mündlein rot!
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Ritter und Schildknecht.[34]
[34.] Erk and Böhme, I, 374. Imagine the story thus: A faithless wife instigates her husband’s squire to kill him. When the murder is reported to her she is at first pleased, then touched with remorse. She rides forth to find the body of her husband, and the lilies—symbols of purity—bow in shame as she passes. At sight of her dead husband’s face, she resolves to enter a convent.
Es ritt ein Herr und auch sein Knecht
Wohl über eine Heide, die war schlecht, ja schlecht,
Und alles, was sie red’ten da,
War alles von einer wunderschönen Frauen,
Ja Frauen.