“Per transivit clericus [Beneath the greenwood shade;] Invenit ibi stantent, [A fair and pleasant maid;] Salve mi puella, [Hail thou sweetest she;] Dico tibi vere [Thou my love shalt be!]”

The rest of the song was not to be understood whereas Herdegen likewise sang at the same time, as though he would fain silence the other: 

“Fair Lady, oh, my Lady! 
I would I were with thee,
But two deep rolling rivers
Flow down ’twixt thee and me.”

And as Herdegen sang the last lines: 

“But time may change, my Lady,
And joy may yet be mine,
And sorrow turn to gladness
My sweetest Elselein!”

I heard the Junker roar out “Annelein;” and thereupon a great tumult, and my Uncle Conrad’s voice, and then again much turmoil and moving of benches till all was silence.

Even then sleep visited us not, and that which had been doing below was as great a distress to me as my fears for my lover.  That Ann likewise never closed an eye is beyond all doubt, for when the riot beneath us waxed so loud she wailed in grief:  “Oh, merciful Virgin!” or “How shall all this end?” again and again.

Nay, nor did Ursula sleep; and through the boarded wall I could not fail to hear well-nigh every word of the prayers in which she entreated her patron saint, beseeching her fervently to grant her to be loved by Herdegen, whose heart from his youth up had by right been hers alone, and invoking ruin on the false wench who had dared to rob her of that treasure.

I was right frightened to hear this and, in truth, for the first time I felt honest pity for Ursula.

[End of the original Volume One of the print edition]

ETEXT EDITOR’S BOOKMARKS: 

Love which is able and ready to endure all things
Wonder we leave for the most part to children and fools

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