Taylor, Edgar [Editor]; Austin, Sarah [Editor]: 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)

DIETMAR OF AST. 157

Yet, though May is blooming,
And summer is coming,

And birds may sing,
What boots me the joy
If my fair, too coy,

This heart will wring ?
If that auburn hair,
Those eyes so fair,
Those lips so smiling,
Are only beguiling

And piercing my heart

With witching art ?

DIETMAR OF AST.

"Her Dietmar von Ast" (in the Thurgau) ap-
pears to be entitled to claim a very high antiquity.
He certainly belongs at any rate to the beginning of
the 13th century. Several songs in the Manesse MS.
bear his name. The two following little pieces place