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Ich habs gewagt.[18]
[18.] The song was printed separately in 1521 as Ain new lied herr Vlrichs von Hutten. The phrase ich habs gewagt, translating the Latin jacta est alea, became a sort of motto with Hutten after he had taken, in the fall of 1520, the momentous step of defending Luther and advocating a German war of liberation.
[19.] Mit sinnen, ‘deliberately.’
[20.] Noch = dennoch.
[21.] Spüren trew, ‘perceive stedfastness,’ ‘see that I am faithful’ to the decision taken.
[22.] Main = meine; ‘I intend the weal not of one only (myself), but of the whole fatherland.’
Ich habs gewagt mit sinnen[19]
Und trag des noch kain rew,
Mag ich nit dran gewinnen,