Footnotes: "Von des todes gehugende" & Melker Marienlied

¹wie sein Scheitel gezogen ist:  how his hair is parted
²als er dir öffentlich und insgeheim Augen machte:  when he made eyes at you publicly and in private.
³This line attests, though negatively, to the existence of a certain poetic etiquette at the courts.
⁴gefällig:  pleasingly
⁵gesetzt:  with deliberate steps
⁶Die zeigt nun leider wenig Faltenwurf:  there is little left now of their [i.e. the pants] drapery.
⁷that is, in order to ruffle the shirt.
⁸gebläht:  bloated
⁹Bahrtuch:  pall
¹⁰Hinfälligkeit:  impermanence
¹¹The abbreviations for the Biblical references  are those of the Jerusalem Bible.
¹²Ahnenreihe:  line of ancestors
¹³The fishing line symbolizes Jesus’ human nature and the hook his divinity;  Death chokes on the  latter as he is about to take possession of Jesus’ worldly remains.
¹⁴cf. Herzmære, footnotes 8 and 9;  Ackermann aus Böhmen, fn. 4.