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Wer kan den hêrren von dem knehte gescheiden,swâ er ir gebeine blôzez fünde,het er ir joch lebender künde?
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Wer kan den hêrren von dem knehte gescheiden, swâ er ir gebeine blôzez fünde, het er ir joch lebender künde?
— And when their bones into confusion fall,
Say ye, who knew the living man by sight,
Which is the villein now and which the knight?
— "Swer âne vorhte, hêrre got", line 10; translation by I. G. Colvin, from James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin (eds.) The Portable Medieval Reader (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977) p. 194.
