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"Quem quaeritis in sepulcro, o cristicolae?"  "Jesum Nazarenum crucifixum, o coelicolae."  "Non est hic:  surrexit, sicut praedixerat.  Ite, nuntiate, quia surrexit de sepulcro!"

"Wen suchet ihr im Grab, ihr Christinnen?" "Jesus von Nazareth, den Gekreuzigten, ihr Himmlischen." "Er ist nicht hier, er ist auferstanden, wie er vorausgesagt. Gehet und meldet, daß er vom Grab auferstanden ist!

²Antonius was probably the name of the male actor who played the role of Mary Magdalene
³in Aargau in Switzerland
⁴"dc" for ‘daz’;  "wc" for ‘waz’;  "svn" for ‘sullet’;  "har" for ‘her’;  "ir wellent" for ‘ir wellet’;  "phenninch" for ‘phenninc’;  "chomen" for ‘komen.’
⁵Since the Osterspiel von Muri manuscript was probably a prompter’s copy, editors of the text have arrived at the conclusion that "Antonius" merely represents the name of male actor who played the role of Maria Magdalena.
⁶Spezereien:  spices, fragrances
⁷Since the «Salbenkrämer» (Lat. institutor) provided the comic element in the Easter plays, anything he says or does is intended to be humorous and also typical, as, for instance, his ‘generous’ remark in 115.
⁸Here begins the «Quem quaeritis»-trope
⁹in Todesbanden liegen:  lit. ‘to be entangled by the cords of death’ (cf. Psalm 116).
¹⁰erstanden:  rose from the dead.