Social Commentaries
Clothed in Honour
Translated by Frank C. Nicholson (1907) · From Old German Love Songs (1907)
Social Commentaries
Though a chaste woman may not wear a costly dress,
Full sure am I, she's clad in her own worthiness,
So that in brave attire she goes,
Even as the sun at morning shows
His bright beams pure and clear. A guileful dame may wear upon her
As costly raiment as she will, scant is her share of honour.
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Codex Note
Spervogel II
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