Taylor, Edgar [Hrsg.]; Austin, Sarah [Hrsg.]: Lays of the minnesingers or German troubadours of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries: Illustr. by specimens of the contemporary lyric poetry of Provence and other parts of Europe ; With histor. and crit. notes, and engravings from the ms. of the minnesingers in the king's library at Paris, and from other sources (London, 1825)

138 GERMANY.

the seed, and bloweth the meed, and springeth the
wood now : sing cuckoo ! The ewe bleateth after the
lamb, loweth after the calf the cow, the bullock
starteth, the buck verteth (goes to harbour in the
fern—Ritson), merry sing cuckoo, cuckoo ! cuckoo !
Well singest thou cuckoo, cease thou never now! &c.
—'Swic' seems to be the German 'schweige,' the
'swic' or 'swig' of the Suabian Minnesingers.]