Und benüegt sich dennocht nit daran,
Er wil dri ob einandern han.
So ist Christus fridsam, demüetig und milt,
So ist der bapst kriegsch, rumorisch und wild
Und ritet dahar so kriegsch und fri,
Grad als ob er voller tüflen si.
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From the ‘Prodigal Son’ by Burkard Waldis.[29]
[29.] Waldis was a Hessian, born about 1495, wno went to Riga in his youth, and there worked and suffered in the cause of the new Lutheranism. The Prodigal Son preaches the Lutheran doctrine of justification by faith. The selection is from the beginning of Act II, where the Prodigal, having lived some time with thieves and harlots, decides to return to his father.
Vorlorn Szohn