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)

296 TROU VERES.

My garden is a beauteous spot,
Garnish'd with blossoms gay ;

There a true lover guards her well,
By night as well as day.

Alas ! no sweeter thing can be,
Than that sweet nightingale ;

Joyous he sings at morning hour,
Till, tired, his numbers fail.

But late I saw my lady cull
The violets on the green :

How lovely did she look ! methought,
What beauty there was seen !

An instant on her form I gazed,

So delicately white ;
Mild as the tender lamb was she,

And as the red rose bright.