’Twas by my mother’s wishes that this from me was hidden;
To keep it from my father, and from his knights as well, were all men bidden.”
[1634]
To him the maiden answered: “My wish I may not hide:
I now, in truth, Sir Hartmut, must speak with you aside.
I and yourself, we only, may hear what I am saying.”
Hartmut then bethought him: “May God now grant she is not falsely playing.”
[1635]
No one else but Fru-te allowed she to come near;
Then the high-born maiden said in Hartmut’s ear: