¹zarten hausdiern:  lovely housemaid
²kuten:  quinces
³pletz und krapfen bachen:  bake cookies and donuts
⁴turren sagen:  to dare say
⁵"Und ob ir uns nicht tut zustoren":  and if you will not interrupt us
⁶where we roamed a long time
⁷Itlicher:  each one
⁸lappen:  fools
⁹ackertrappen:  boor, yokel
¹⁰helt vergut:  pardon, that is, all this crazy conduct will be forgiven today because it is shrovetide
¹¹vasnacht:  literally means ‘Lent’s Eve,’ that is, Shrove Tuesday («mardi gras»!)
¹²not much time is spent in church
¹³buffoonery
¹⁴shrovetide can also make you laugh at all its foolery
¹⁵Karfreitag:  Good Friday
¹⁶anyone behaving like this on Good Friday would be doused with urine
¹⁷Wenn:  for
¹⁸palmtag:  Palm Sunday
¹⁹gut aufnemen:  accept favorably
²⁰even if our performance might turn out to be rather coarse
²¹many will lose their common sense today
²²so that one can make a cooperative fool of him
²³laß wir anstan:  we will push aside
²⁴ll. 43f.:  we are a bunch of well-travelled fellows with lots of experience
²⁵each one of them
²⁶The following represents the introduction of the cast, all with names or handicaps that are intended to make the audience snicker knowingly.  "Trewetzen" suggests a place name of whose ludicrous implication we are no longer aware; the same holds true of "Kunz von Trawin" and "Herman Hans von Trimatei," obviously a name mocking the practice of noblemen of carrying several distinctive names;  also "von" used in the names of these bawdy characters as well as the fact that practically all the names are tongue twisters—probably enunciated with labored grimaces—certainly are intended to mock people of noble heritage.  "Metze" is a nickname for Margarete, here  the meaning is  ‘whore.’  "Gundelwein von Tribilant" or "Tribetant" suggest persons who idle their time away, probably in taverns;  "Rubenschlunt von Safferei" fittingly describes the name’s owner as a drunkard of some proportion. "Fullendrussel Wissmirdasgeseß" is self-explanatory:  he is both a glutton and as a result often caught with his pants down. "Piersieder von dem Gefreß" suggests a brewer who also enjoys stuffing himself.  We can already anticipate what sort of stories they will have to tell.
²⁷The play dates from the middle of the fifteenth century and the reference here simply mocks the idea of a knight with a lame hand;  it could not have been intended to ridicule the legendary Götz von Berlichingen «mit der eisernen Faust» who was not born until 1480.
²⁸went to a lot of trouble
²⁹fladen:  cow chips
³⁰puchen:  bake
³¹maier:  tenant farmer
³²als ein padhuetlein:  the size of a bathing cap
³³those will still your hunger
³⁴susse:  liquid excrement
³⁵gut fur die schusse:  will cure your lumbago («Hexenschuß»)
³⁶driokes:  Theriak, a medieval poison antidote which was believed to prevent boils and other kinds of sores.
³⁷who had fat dripping from his bottom
³⁸he who is in danger of dying from coughing
³⁹he looked like the cook down at the haymarket
⁴⁰Notice the gross association of ‘one who wipes his mouth’ with the nobiliary name ‘Wipe-my-bottom.’
⁴¹sußleich:  sweetly
⁴²winden:  ‘wind’
⁴³feigenklauber:  collectors of horse droppings
⁴⁴‘they are great for improving one’s voice’
⁴⁵The ‘lady’ uses her urine to scrub ("fegen") the floors with.
⁴⁶zwecht:  washes
⁴⁷What is interesting about this ‘experiment’ is how they bleached (actually,  ‘make yellow’) and curled hair in the fifteenth century:  with sulfur and eggwhite.
⁴⁸I watched a girl skin a hedgehog («Igel»)
⁴⁹i.e. a condom
⁵⁰The girl uses the rather smallish skin of a hedgehog to prevent suitors—here identified with the word "pruchmeise" which is a common word the male member—from entering through her bedroom window!
⁵¹This is an aside to the audience.
⁵²bos zu schinten:  apparently somebody objects, saying that  hedgehogs are ‘difficult to skin.’
⁵³tocken:  doll
⁵⁴rocken:  spinning room, a favorite place for young men to ogle and socialize with  girls
⁵⁵tun mir zilen:  have designs on me
⁵⁶The true meaning of  "tocken" is clear now as both daughter and mother vie for the young man’s sexual favors.
⁵⁷faige haut:  confounded wench
⁵⁸kurzweil:   now that the ‘show’ is over the «Vorläufer» bids farewell to the innkeeper—plays such as these were almost always performed in inns—and the audience.
⁵⁹Pardon us for our foolery
⁶⁰Erlestegen:  name of a place
⁶¹tauben etlein:  deaf old man
⁶²heute