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Thread #92213   Message #1762035
Posted By: Wilfried Schaum
17-Jun-06 - 04:27 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: mit ganczen willen wuensch ich dir
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: mit ganczen willen wuensch ich dir
leeneia - go to the menu, click view, and chose Unicode. Then you will see characters unchanged.

Don't suspect Our Lady in every song where love is the theme. St Mary will help you with your tribulations, but for the native speaker here it is clearly worldly love; the wee virgin is asked to help him with the pressure of sexual desire. The answer is clear: be true to me, and I'll be true to you, and you can dare ...
In medieval courteous poetry we have the concept of "minne", love. The "high love" describes adoration without lower desires, and so it happens that some songs to St Mary are formed in the same way - not the other way round.

Wolfgang wasn't naughty, he only wrote what I forgot to do. When I wanted to add this pun, he was there before me.