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Alas!
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Coming, master! Here!
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The shoes have been delivered
to Mr Beckmesser
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Was that you calling me just now?
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He's acting as though I'm not here
He must be angry or he'd speak
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Master, can you forgive me
How can an apprentice ever be perfect?
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If you knew Lena as I do
You'd forgive me for sure
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She is so kind and gentle
And often looks at me with such tenderness
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If you beat me, she caresses away my pain
With such sweet smiles
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If I'm hungry, she brings me food
And she's generally adorable
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But yesterday, because the knight failed
She took the basket away
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That hurt, and then last night
When I saw someone outside the house
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Singing to her and howling like crazy
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I gave him a good kicking
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How could that cause such fuss?
It did our love a power of good!
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Lena's just explained everything
And given me flowers for the festival
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Master, please say something
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If only I'd put away
The sausage and the cake!
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Do I see flowers and ribbons?
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It looks charming and youthful
How did they get in my house?
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Master, today's a festival
Everyone wears their Sunday best
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Is there a wedding to celebrate?
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Yes, would that the time had come
For David to marry Lena!
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It was stag night, methinks?
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Stag night? Here comes trouble
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Forgive and forget, Master
Today we celebrate Midsummer's Day
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Midsummer's Day?
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Is he going deaf?
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Do you know your song? Let me hear
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My song? I think I know it well enough
No thrashing, the master's in a good mood
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On the banks of the Jordan stood St. John...
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W... what?
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Forgive the confusion
The stag night has led me astray
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Shit!
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On the banks of the Jordan stood St. John
To baptise all the people of the world
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A woman came from a distant land
From Nuremberg she'd walked
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Carrying her son to the river bank
For baptism and christening
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But when they took their homeward way
Got back to Nuremberg again
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In German land it soon transpired
That the person who on the river bank
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Was named John of the Jordan
On the River Pegnitz became Hans
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Hans... Hans! Master!
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Today is your name-day!
How could I have forgotten?
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Here! Take these flowers
These ribbons... What else is there?
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Look, Master, here's a delicious cake!
What about some sausage?
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Thanks, my boy, keep it for yourself
Today you're coming to the meadow with me
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Look your best with the flowers and ribbons
As befits my fine herald
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What about as your best man?
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Master, oh Master
You should marry again
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So you'd like a mistress in the house?
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I think it would look much grander
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Who knows? Time brings wisdom
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The time is right
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So wisdom can't be far away?
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That's right!
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There are rumours about already
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Surely you'll sing Beckmesser off the stage?
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His airs and graces
will count for nothing today
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We'll see
I've already thought about it as well
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Now go, and don't disturb the knight
Come back dressed smartly
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He's been kind before, but never this kind
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I can hardly remember what the strap's like
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Madness! Madness!
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Madness everywhere
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Wherever I look
In city and world chronicles
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To seek out the reason
Why, till they draw blood
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People torment and flay each other
In useless, foolish anger
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No-one has reward
Or thanks for it
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Driven to flight
He thinks he is hunting
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Not hearing his own cry of pain
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When he digs into his own flesh
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He thinks it gives him pleasure
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By what name does this go?
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It's the same age-old madness
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Without which nothing can happen
Nothing at all
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If it halts its course somewhere
It's only to gain new strength in sleep
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Suddenly it awakens
Then see who can master it!
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How at peace with its long-held customs
Contented in deed and work
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Nurtured in the heart of Germany
Lies my beloved Nuremberg
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But late one evening
To prevent a mishap
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Caused by youthful ardour
A man knows not what to do
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A cobbler in his shop
Plucks at the thread of madness
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How soon in alleys and streets
It begins to rage
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Men, women and children
Attack each other, blind with rage
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And if madness is to prevail
It must now rain blows
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With beatings, cuts and thrashings
To quench the fire of anger
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God knows, how did it come to this
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A goblin must have been at work
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A glow-worm couldn't find its mate
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So trouble was stirred up
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It was the scent of elder, Midsummer's Eve
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But now it is Midsummer's Day!
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Now let us see how Hans Sachs manages
To carefully guide the madness
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So as to perform a nobler work
For if madness won't leave us in peace
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Even here in Nuremberg
Then let it be for such works
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As seldom succeed in plain doings
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And never so without a touch of madness
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Good morning, dear knight
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So you're up
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You were awake until late
Did you sleep?
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A little, but deeply and well
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So now you are in a better mood?
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I had the most beautiful dream
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That bodes well, tell me about it
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I scarcely dare even to think of it
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I fear to see it vanish from me
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My friend, that's precisely the poet's task
To note and interpret his dreams
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Believe me, a man's truest illusions
Are revealed to him by dreams
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All poetry and versification
Is nothing but true dream interpretation
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What are the odds that your dream told you
How you might become a Master today?
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No, from the guild and its Masters
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My vision did not want
to take its inspiration
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But surely it taught you
The magic needed to win her?
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How can you think that after such failure
There is still hope?
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I won't let my hope diminish
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Nothing has yet overthrown it
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Without it,
I wouldn't have hindered your flight
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but ran away with you
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So I beg you, no more resentment
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You are dealing with men of honour
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They make mistakes and are content
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That one takes them on their own terms
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He who decides prizes and offers prizes
Expects also that people should please him
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Your song made them uneasy
And rightly so, for when you think of it
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It is with such fire of poetry and love
That daughters are seduced to adventure
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But for loving and blissful wedlock
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Other words and melodies were invented
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I know, I learned them last night
From the noise I heard in the street
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Yes, yes, true! The beat to it as well
You must have heard, but let that be
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And follow my advice, in short:
Take courage and make a mastersong!
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A beautiful song, a mastersong
How do I grasp the difference?
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My friend, in the sweet time of youth
When from mighty impulse
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To blissful first love
The breast swells high and free
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To sing a beautiful song
Many have succeeded
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Spring sang for them
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But when summer, autumn and winter come
Much hardship and care in life
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Much married joy as well
Baptism, business, discord and strife
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Whoever then can still succeed
In singing a beautiful song
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Behold, he is called master!
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I love a woman and will woo her
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To be my wife for always
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Learn the Master's rules in good time
That they may truly accompany you
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And help you keep
What in youthful years
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With fair impulse
Love and spring
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Placed in your heart unawares
So that you may cherish it safely
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If they now stand in such high repute
Who was it made the rules?
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It was sorely-troubled Masters
Spirits oppressed by life's cares
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In the desert of their troubles
They formed an image for themselves
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So that to them might remain
Of youthful love
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A memory, clear and firm
In which spring can be recognised
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But if Spring has faded from one's life
How can its image be recaptured?
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We restore it as best we can
So, as a troubled man, I should like
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If I am to teach you the rules
For you to explain them to me anew
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Look, we have ink, quill and paper
You dictate, I'll write it down
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I hardly know how to begin
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Tell me your morning dream
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Through the good precepts of your rules
I feel as if it were wiped away
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Then take poetry to your hand now
Through it many found what was lost
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So it might not be a dream, but poetry?
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The two as friends go hand in hand
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How do I begin by the rules?
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You make your own and follow them
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Think back to your beautiful morning dream
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Let Hans Sachs take care of the rest
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Shining in the rosy light of morning
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The air heavy
With blossom and scent,
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Full of every
Unthought-of joy
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A garden invited me
To be its guest
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That was a stanza, now see to it
That one just like it follows
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Why just like it?
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So that all can see
That you're compatible with your bride
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Blissfully towering from that blessed spot
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Offering golden fruits'
Healing, juicy abundance
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With fair splendour
In response to desire
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At the tips of fragrant branches
A glorious tree
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Closing in a different tone
Won't please the masters
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But Hans Sachs will learn from it
In spring it must be so
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Now compose an after song
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Meaning what?
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If you've succeeded
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In finding a true pair
It will show in the offspring
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Similar to the stanzas
But rich in its own rhyme and melody
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Well-honed and unique
To make its parents proud
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To form a conclusion to your stanzas
So that nothing shall fall out of place
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To you be confided
What sublime wonder befell me
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At my side stood a woman
So fair and beautiful as I have never seen
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Like a bride
She gently enfolded my body
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With twinkling eyes
Her hand pointed shining
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Towards what I ardently desired
The fruit, so fair and precious
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Of the tree of life
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That's what I call an After song
The whole section worked wonderfully
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Only with the melody
You are a little free
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But I don't say that's a fault
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But it isn't easy to memorise
Which will vex our elders
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Now fashion me a second section
To show what the first one was
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Also, I don't yet know
Well as you've rhymed
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What you've composed
And what you've dreamt
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Glowing in the evening's heavenly splendour
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The day departed
As I lay there
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From her eyes
To drink bliss
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A desire of unique power
Awoke within me
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Enclosed in night
My gaze grows faint
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So far, yet near
Shone there
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Two light stars
From the distance
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Through the light of slender twigs
Brightly on my face
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A loving spring
On a silent height murmurs to me
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Now its lovely tone swells
So strong and sweet as I've never heard it
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Gleaming and bright
How beautifully the stars shone there
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To dance and circle
In leaves and twigs
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More of the golden ones come together
Instead of fruit a host of stars
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In the laurel tree
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Friend, your vision told you true
Your second section is a success too
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If you would write a third
It would tell the meaning of the dream
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Where would I find that? Enough of words!
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Action and words
At their allotted time
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Therefore remember well the melody
It is a fine vehicle for poetry
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And when you sing it in a wider circle
Then hold fast to your vision too
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What are you planning?
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Your trusty servant
Found his way here with pack and bag
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The clothes in which at the marriage
At your home you intended to dazzle
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He has sent to me
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A little bird must have shown him the nest
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In which his master was dreaming
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So follow me now into the chamber
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With richly embroidered clothes
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We must both be adorned
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If we are to venture on great things
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So come, if you agree with me
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A courting song! By Sachs! Can this be true?
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Ha! That explains everything!
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So, Mr Scribe, who's the early bird?
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Surely nothing wrong with your shoes?
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The devil! I've never had such thin soles
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I can feel every tiny stone
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My marking song did that
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Made them soft with the marker's strokes
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No more jokes, and enough of your tricks
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Believe me, friend Sachs
I know what you're getting at
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Last night's joke
Will come back to haunt you
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You created an uproar and riot
To get me out of your way!
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It was a stag night, don't forget
Your wedding prospects spooked everyone
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The crazier the fun
The better the marriage
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00:47:38,089 --> 00:47:45,363
Oh, so full of cobbler's cunning
And vulgar pranks
243
00:47:45,430 --> 00:47:49,167
You've always been my enemy
But I know your game
244
00:47:49,834 --> 00:47:52,604
The girl I had chosen
Born just for me
245
00:47:52,670 --> 00:47:55,607
Disgrace of all widowers
You want the girl for your own
246
00:47:55,673 --> 00:47:58,576
So that Mr Sachs might win
The goldsmith's inheritance
247
00:47:58,643 --> 00:48:01,679
In the masters' assembly
He insisted on clauses
248
00:48:01,746 --> 00:48:05,617
So as to seduce a girl
Who should listen only to him
249
00:48:05,683 --> 00:48:10,121
And, forsaking other men
Turn only to him
250
00:48:11,456 --> 00:48:16,761
That's why! That's why!
Do you think I'm stupid?
251
00:48:16,828 --> 00:48:21,599
With shouts and banging
You wanted to stop my song
252
00:48:21,666 --> 00:48:26,204
So that the child should not know
How another man felt
253
00:48:27,305 --> 00:48:32,710
Yes, yes! Ha ha!
Have I got you there?
254
00:48:32,777 --> 00:48:36,781
From your cobbler's shop
You finally set the boy
255
00:48:36,848 --> 00:48:39,651
On me with cudgels
To get rid of me!
256
00:48:40,752 --> 00:48:45,390
Ow, ow! Ow, ow!
beaten black and blue
257
00:48:45,456 --> 00:48:49,527
The laughing stock of my dearest lady
258
00:48:49,594 --> 00:48:53,564
So utterly thrashed
259
00:48:53,631 --> 00:48:58,202
That no tailor could iron me out!
260
00:48:58,269 --> 00:49:01,739
My very life
Was endangered
261
00:49:01,806 --> 00:49:05,610
But I escaped all the same
To be able to pay you back
262
00:49:05,677 --> 00:49:08,947
Just wait for the singing contest today
And see how it goes
263
00:49:09,013 --> 00:49:11,749
Though I'm pinched
And hacked about too
264
00:49:11,816 --> 00:49:14,118
I'll certainly upset your rhythm
265
00:49:17,388 --> 00:49:23,962
Good friend, you're seriously deluded
Believe what you like
266
00:49:24,028 --> 00:49:31,302
But stop this jealousy
I've no plans to compete with you
267
00:49:31,369 --> 00:49:34,005
Lies and deceit! I know better
268
00:49:34,072 --> 00:49:37,875
What's come over you, Master Beckmesser?
269
00:49:37,942 --> 00:49:43,781
My plans are none of your business
270
00:49:43,848 --> 00:49:51,956
But believe me
You are deluded about me competing
271
00:49:52,023 --> 00:49:54,792
You're not singing today?
272
00:49:54,859 --> 00:49:57,695
Not in the competition
273
00:49:57,762 --> 00:50:00,365
No courting song?
274
00:50:00,431 --> 00:50:03,334
Certainly not!
275
00:50:03,401 --> 00:50:08,306
But supposing I had proof of it?
276
00:50:18,516 --> 00:50:27,859
The poem? It was here
Have you taken it?
277
00:50:27,925 --> 00:50:30,628
Is this your handwriting?
278
00:50:33,431 --> 00:50:37,201
Yes, so that's it?
279
00:50:40,571 --> 00:50:42,907
Quite fresh still, the writing?
280
00:50:45,910 --> 00:50:49,013
And the ink still wet?
281
00:50:50,381 --> 00:50:55,720
A biblical song by any chance?
282
00:50:55,787 --> 00:51:00,825
Whoever guessed that would be wrong
283
00:51:00,892 --> 00:51:01,926
Well then?
284
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:03,995
What do you mean?
285
00:51:05,063 --> 00:51:06,097
You ask?
286
00:51:06,964 --> 00:51:08,232
What more?
287
00:51:11,469 --> 00:51:19,277
In all honesty
You are the most exasperating of rogues
288
00:51:20,845 --> 00:51:30,388
That may be, but I've yet to steal
From someone else's table
289
00:51:30,455 --> 00:51:34,092
And so that no one thinks badly of you
290
00:51:34,158 --> 00:51:38,996
Keep the manuscript as a gift
291
00:51:39,063 --> 00:51:39,997
Good heavens!
292
00:51:41,132 --> 00:51:42,400
A Poem!
293
00:51:42,967 --> 00:51:44,969
A poem by Sachs?
294
00:51:46,270 --> 00:51:51,142
But wait!
In case there's more trickery
295
00:51:53,478 --> 00:51:58,683
I assume you've memorised everything?
296
00:51:58,749 --> 00:52:01,919
Don't worry about that
297
00:52:01,986 --> 00:52:04,422
- You'll let me have it?
- That you're no thief
298
00:52:04,489 --> 00:52:07,058
- And I can use it?
- However you wish
299
00:52:07,125 --> 00:52:09,794
- Even to sing the song?
- If it's not too difficult
300
00:52:09,861 --> 00:52:11,929
What if I make a success of it?
301
00:52:15,566 --> 00:52:22,306
I'd be... very surprised
302
00:52:23,674 --> 00:52:28,045
There you go again, you're too modest
303
00:52:28,112 --> 00:52:33,518
A song by Sachs, that counts for something
304
00:52:33,584 --> 00:52:38,489
And just look at the state I'm in
Poor wretch that I am
305
00:52:38,556 --> 00:52:44,328
I look with pain at the song
Which I sang last night
306
00:52:44,395 --> 00:52:48,566
Thanks to your funny pranks
It made the Pogner girl uneasy
307
00:52:49,534 --> 00:52:54,572
How can I produce a new song
Fit for purpose and quickly?
308
00:52:54,639 --> 00:52:59,343
Poor, beaten-up fellow that I am
How can I find peace to finish it today?
309
00:52:59,410 --> 00:53:04,182
Wooing and married life
Even if God ordained them for me
310
00:53:04,248 --> 00:53:08,886
I must immediately give up
If I have no new song
311
00:53:10,488 --> 00:53:19,797
With a song of yours, of that I'm sure
I'd overcome every obstacle
312
00:53:19,864 --> 00:53:23,301
If I'm to have that today
buried and forgotten
313
00:53:23,367 --> 00:53:29,006
Be quarrels, dispute, and strife
And whatever else kept us apart
314
00:53:33,477 --> 00:53:36,280
And yet! Could this be just another trap?
315
00:53:41,786 --> 00:53:45,323
Only yesterday you were my enemy
316
00:53:46,457 --> 00:53:50,661
How should it be
that after such great trouble
317
00:53:50,728 --> 00:53:55,766
You are friendly to me today?
318
00:53:56,434 --> 00:54:03,341
I was making you shoes late into the night
Would I do that for an enemy?
319
00:54:03,407 --> 00:54:08,546
Yes, yes! Quite right! But swear one thing:
Wherever and however you hear the song
320
00:54:08,613 --> 00:54:14,085
You'll never take it into your head
To say that the song was written by you
321
00:54:14,151 --> 00:54:30,201
I swear it and give you my word
I'll never admit that the song is mine
322
00:54:30,268 --> 00:54:32,703
What more do I want? I am saved
323
00:54:32,770 --> 00:54:36,674
Now Beckmesser's worries are over
324
00:54:36,741 --> 00:54:42,913
But friend, I draw it to your attention
And advise you with all kindness
325
00:54:42,980 --> 00:54:48,452
Study the song well
It is not easy to perform
326
00:54:48,519 --> 00:54:54,759
Even if you find the right melody
And get the proper tone
327
00:54:54,825 --> 00:55:00,498
Friend Sachs, you are a good poet
But where tone and melody are concerned
328
00:55:00,564 --> 00:55:07,371
You know I'm the best
Listen carefully:
329
00:55:07,438 --> 00:55:11,976
Beckmesser
no-one better
330
00:55:12,043 --> 00:55:17,915
That cry will resound
If you'll just allow me to sing in peace
331
00:55:17,982 --> 00:55:20,785
But now, to memorise it
Quickly home
332
00:55:20,851 --> 00:55:23,454
Without losing time
I'll see to that
333
00:55:23,521 --> 00:55:28,159
Hans Sachs, my dearest
I've misjudged you
334
00:55:28,225 --> 00:55:31,896
By that adventurer
I was led astray
335
00:55:31,962 --> 00:55:43,741
We don't need his sort
We Masters will be well rid of him
336
00:55:43,808 --> 00:55:47,578
But my thoughts
Are running away with me
337
00:55:47,645 --> 00:55:50,648
Am I confused
And quite lost?
338
00:55:50,715 --> 00:55:54,051
The syllables, the rhymes
The words, the lines
339
00:55:54,885 --> 00:55:57,822
I'm stuck as if by glue
And yet my heels are itching
340
00:55:57,888 --> 00:56:01,092
Goodbye, I must be off
In another place
341
00:56:01,158 --> 00:56:04,695
I'll thank you heartily
For being so charming
342
00:56:04,762 --> 00:56:06,430
I'll vote only for you
343
00:56:06,497 --> 00:56:10,267
I'll buy your works at once
And make you marker
344
00:56:10,334 --> 00:56:17,475
But delicately, with soft chalk
Not with hammer-strokes!
345
00:56:17,541 --> 00:56:21,746
Marker! Marker! Marker Hans Sachs!
346
00:56:22,947 --> 00:56:31,322
In true cobbler fashion
Let Nuremberg bloom and thrive!
347
00:57:06,323 --> 00:57:14,498
I've never known anyone so malicious
Who could keep this up for so long
348
00:57:15,533 --> 00:57:24,975
Some people squander intelligence
He dishes it out very sparingly
349
00:57:25,042 --> 00:57:35,853
We all have our moments of weakness
But after foolishness, reason prevails
350
00:57:39,824 --> 00:57:43,928
That Mr Beckmesser has turned thief here
351
00:57:45,696 --> 00:57:51,669
Is very welcome for my plan
352
00:58:00,878 --> 00:58:07,651
See, here's Eva
I was wondering where she was
353
00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:18,062
God be with you, my Eva! Ah, how noble
And proud you are today!
354
00:58:19,830 --> 00:58:32,142
You'll fill young and old with desire
By looking so beautiful
355
00:58:44,488 --> 00:58:50,528
Master, there's no such danger
356
00:58:51,829 --> 00:58:55,065
And if the tailor has brought it off
357
00:58:55,132 --> 00:59:01,105
Who'll then see where I'm anxious
358
00:59:01,171 --> 00:59:07,878
Where my shoe silently pinches me?
359
00:59:07,945 --> 00:59:13,984
The naughty shoe! You were the one
Who didn't want to try it on yesterday
360
00:59:16,720 --> 00:59:27,765
I obviously took too much on trust
Misjudging a master
361
00:59:27,831 --> 00:59:35,172
I'm sorry! Show me, my child
I'll deal with it right away
362
00:59:36,607 --> 00:59:44,782
If I stand, it seems to go
But if I go, it makes me stand
363
00:59:44,848 --> 00:59:51,021
Put your foot on the stool here
I'll relieve the dreadful pain
364
00:59:54,058 --> 00:59:55,693
What's wrong with this one?
365
00:59:56,594 --> 01:00:00,331
Look, it's too wide
366
01:00:01,632 --> 01:00:06,704
Child, that is pure vanity
The shoe fits snugly
367
01:00:06,770 --> 01:00:17,681
Just what I said
That's why it pinches my toes
368
01:00:17,748 --> 01:00:19,083
Here on the left?
369
01:00:19,149 --> 01:00:21,285
No, on the right
370
01:00:21,352 --> 01:00:23,053
More on the instep?
371
01:00:24,421 --> 01:00:26,890
Here, more at the heel
372
01:00:26,957 --> 01:00:28,325
Trouble there too?
373
01:00:28,392 --> 01:00:34,231
Ah Master! Don't you know better than I
Where the shoe pinches me?
374
01:00:34,298 --> 01:00:40,371
Indeed, I'm surprised
That it's too wide, yet pinches everywhere!
375
01:00:41,605 --> 01:00:45,376
- Ah!
- Aha! Here it is!
376
01:00:45,442 --> 01:00:48,679
Now I see what's wrong
377
01:00:48,746 --> 01:00:53,283
Child, you're right, it was the stitching
378
01:00:53,350 --> 01:00:56,353
Now wait, I'll cure the trouble
379
01:00:56,420 --> 01:00:59,156
Stay where you are, I'll put your shoe
380
01:00:59,223 --> 01:01:04,928
On the last for a while,
then all will be well
381
01:01:15,072 --> 01:01:22,613
Always cobbling, that is my lot
Night and day I, there's no escaping it
382
01:01:24,548 --> 01:01:31,288
Listen, child, I've thought it over
How to put an end to my cobbling
383
01:01:31,355 --> 01:01:38,395
If I were to woo you after all
At least I might win something as a poet
384
01:01:38,462 --> 01:01:44,902
Are you not listening? Say something
Wasn't it you who gave me the idea?
385
01:01:46,770 --> 01:01:48,072
I see
386
01:01:49,840 --> 01:01:54,411
It is "get on with the shoes"
387
01:01:56,647 --> 01:02:00,684
If only someone would sing to it!
388
01:02:00,751 --> 01:02:10,627
I heard a very beautiful song earlier
I wonder if there's a third verse now
389
01:02:19,069 --> 01:02:27,244
Did the stars linger in their lovely dance?
390
01:02:27,311 --> 01:02:32,349
So light and clear
In her tresses
391
01:02:32,416 --> 01:02:38,021
Above all women
Fair to behold
392
01:02:38,088 --> 01:02:45,462
Lay with delicate gleam
A garland of stars
393
01:02:45,529 --> 01:02:58,542
- Listen, child, that's a mastersong
- Wonder on wonder now appears
394
01:02:58,609 --> 01:03:03,781
Twofold day
I gladly greet
395
01:03:03,847 --> 01:03:09,386
For like twin suns
Of purest bliss
396
01:03:09,453 --> 01:03:16,627
The most glorious pair of eyes
I there perceived
397
01:03:16,693 --> 01:03:24,768
- This is what's sung at my house now
- Most gracious picture
398
01:03:24,835 --> 01:03:29,273
Which I have so boldly approached
399
01:03:29,339 --> 01:03:33,410
The garland by two suns' beams
400
01:03:33,477 --> 01:03:39,650
At once faded and made fresh green
401
01:03:39,716 --> 01:03:43,620
Lovingly and mildly
402
01:03:43,687 --> 01:03:50,527
- She twined it around her husband's head
- Now let's see
403
01:03:50,594 --> 01:03:56,033
- Born there in grace
- If that's helped my shoe, at last I think
404
01:03:56,099 --> 01:04:00,037
- Now set for fame
- I've succeeded
405
01:04:00,103 --> 01:04:03,207
- She pours heavenly joy
- Try it
406
01:04:03,273 --> 01:04:05,375
- Into the poet's breast
- Stand on it!
407
01:04:05,442 --> 01:04:15,853
- In a dream of love
- Say, does it still pinch?
408
01:04:41,144 --> 01:04:45,249
Shoemaking is nothing but trouble!
409
01:04:46,850 --> 01:04:59,596
If I wasn't also a poet
I would give up making shoes
410
01:05:00,430 --> 01:05:04,801
It's so much trial and effort
411
01:05:04,868 --> 01:05:13,076
Too wide for one, too tight for another
People crowding in from all sides
412
01:05:13,143 --> 01:05:14,912
It clops
It's loose
413
01:05:14,978 --> 01:05:17,781
Tight here
Pinches there
414
01:05:17,848 --> 01:05:24,421
A cobbler has to know everything
Mending anything that's worn out
415
01:05:24,488 --> 01:05:31,495
And if he's also a poet
They will hassle him for this too
416
01:05:31,561 --> 01:05:39,269
And if he's also a widower
They will take him for a fool
417
01:05:39,336 --> 01:05:45,776
The youngest girls, when there's a shortage
Want him to ask for their hand
418
01:05:46,710 --> 01:05:53,650
Whether he understands them or not
No matter if he says yes or no
419
01:05:53,717 --> 01:06:00,524
In the end he smells of pitch
And is thought stupid, malicious, impudent
420
01:06:01,558 --> 01:06:06,563
Ah! I'm only sorry for my apprentice
He'll lose everyone's respect
421
01:06:06,630 --> 01:06:09,700
Lena is already affecting his reason
422
01:06:09,766 --> 01:06:11,635
And has him eating out of her hand
423
01:06:11,702 --> 01:06:14,538
Where the devil is he now?
424
01:06:14,604 --> 01:06:22,946
O Sachs, my friend, dearest man!
425
01:06:24,514 --> 01:06:32,723
How can I reward such nobility?
426
01:06:32,789 --> 01:06:40,664
What would I have done without your love?
427
01:06:42,032 --> 01:06:51,108
I would have remained a child
If you had not awakened me
428
01:06:51,174 --> 01:06:55,746
Through you I've won
what people prize
429
01:06:55,812 --> 01:07:00,384
Through you I've learnt
The workings of the spirit
430
01:07:00,450 --> 01:07:04,654
By you awoken
Only through you did I think
431
01:07:04,721 --> 01:07:19,836
Nobly, freely, and boldly
You made me blossom!
432
01:07:22,672 --> 01:07:27,811
Yes, dear Master, scold me if you will
433
01:07:30,013 --> 01:07:35,185
But I must now follow my heart
434
01:07:35,252 --> 01:07:41,658
If the choice were mine alone
I would choose none but you
435
01:07:41,725 --> 01:07:55,806
You would have been my husband
The prize would have been yours
436
01:07:57,941 --> 01:08:10,654
But now I am chosen
For unknown torment,
437
01:08:10,720 --> 01:08:16,860
And if I am married today
Then I had no choice
438
01:08:16,927 --> 01:08:23,333
It was necessity, compulsion!
439
01:08:28,138 --> 01:08:45,522
Even you, Master, have been dismayed
440
01:08:48,024 --> 01:08:58,969
My child, of Tristan und Isolde
441
01:09:00,704 --> 01:09:07,744
I know a sad tale
442
01:09:07,811 --> 01:09:15,952
Hans Sachs was clever and did not want
443
01:09:16,019 --> 01:09:25,762
Anything of King Mark's lot
444
01:09:26,296 --> 01:09:34,671
It was high time I found the right man
445
01:09:34,738 --> 01:09:44,147
Or I would have run into the same trap
446
01:09:45,582 --> 01:09:53,089
Aha, there's Lena hurrying round the corner
Come in! Hey, David! Aren't you coming out?
447
01:09:55,692 --> 01:09:59,763
The witnesses and godparents are here
448
01:09:59,829 --> 01:10:06,570
Take your places for a christening!
449
01:10:10,840 --> 01:10:24,821
A child has been born here
Now a name must be chosen
450
01:10:24,888 --> 01:10:35,465
This the master's style and practice
When a new mastersong is created
451
01:10:36,166 --> 01:10:48,478
So that it may bear a fitting name
By which all may recognise it
452
01:10:50,547 --> 01:11:01,591
Hear, respected company
What summons you here today
453
01:11:02,759 --> 01:11:11,534
A new mastersong has been created
And sung by the noble Walther
454
01:11:11,601 --> 01:11:27,651
The melody's father has invited me
And Pogner's daughter to be godparents
455
01:11:33,156 --> 01:11:41,931
Because we have heard the melody
We have come hither to its christening
456
01:11:41,998 --> 01:11:56,946
And for witnesses to the ceremony
I summon Miss Lena and my lad
457
01:12:01,985 --> 01:12:11,795
But as an apprentice cannot act as witness
And today he also sang his song well
458
01:12:11,861 --> 01:12:23,973
I hereby promote him to journeyman
Kneel down, David, and take this slap!
459
01:12:30,313 --> 01:12:42,292
Arise, journeyman, and think of that blow
It will always remind you of the baptism
460
01:12:42,359 --> 01:12:47,931
No reproaches if we've overlooked anything
461
01:12:47,997 --> 01:12:53,002
Who knows, it may be an emergency baptism
462
01:12:53,069 --> 01:13:04,347
So that the melody may have strength to live
I will give it its name at once
463
01:13:09,519 --> 01:13:21,398
"What the blessed morning dream tells me"
464
01:13:21,464 --> 01:13:36,880
Let it be named to its master's praise
465
01:13:38,681 --> 01:13:48,124
May it grow tall, without harm or hurt
466
01:13:48,191 --> 01:13:55,064
The youngest godparent
will speak the dedication
467
01:14:20,723 --> 01:14:36,539
Happy as the sun
Smiling on my good fortune
468
01:14:36,606 --> 01:14:49,586
A morning full of joy
Blessedly awakes for me
469
01:14:49,652 --> 01:15:08,638
Dream of highest favours
Heavenly morning glow
470
01:15:10,607 --> 01:15:25,321
Interpretation to owe you
Blissful sweet task
471
01:15:26,756 --> 01:15:35,632
- A melody, tender and noble
- Before the child, charming and fair
472
01:15:35,732 --> 01:15:43,840
- Ought to succeed gracefully
- I would fain sing out
473
01:15:43,907 --> 01:15:48,344
Do I wake or dream so early?
474
01:15:48,411 --> 01:15:57,453
My heart's sweet burden
475
01:15:57,520 --> 01:16:03,293
To interpret and subdue
476
01:16:03,359 --> 01:16:11,000
To explain it gives me trouble
477
01:16:11,067 --> 01:16:19,309
Is it only a morning dream?
478
01:16:19,375 --> 01:16:26,449
- In my bliss, I'm not sure what it is
- I scarcely dare think of it
479
01:16:26,516 --> 01:16:32,488
- This melody
- At this place
480
01:16:32,555 --> 01:16:34,924
You won a journeyman
481
01:16:39,262 --> 01:16:43,566
- Confides to me
- Lena betrothed
482
01:16:43,633 --> 01:16:48,438
In the church we shall even be married?
483
01:16:48,504 --> 01:16:54,010
Says to me aloud
484
01:16:54,077 --> 01:17:05,488
- Even youth's eternal garland
- In the full circle of the masters
485
01:17:07,957 --> 01:17:26,643
May it point to the highest prize
486
01:17:48,131 --> 01:17:50,566
Let's go to it!
487
01:17:51,100 --> 01:17:54,203
Greetings to your father
488
01:17:54,270 --> 01:17:58,708
Off to the meadow! Quickly now!
489
01:18:04,013 --> 01:18:15,324
Now, Sir knight, come! Be of good cheer!
Journeyman David, lock up shop!
490
01:20:31,761 --> 01:20:38,167
Saint Crispin
Praise him!
491
01:20:38,234 --> 01:20:44,640
He was a very holy man
492
01:20:44,707 --> 01:20:48,110
Showed what a cobbler can do
493
01:20:49,278 --> 01:20:56,986
The poor had a good time
He made them warm shoes
494
01:20:57,053 --> 01:21:05,661
And if no one would lend him the leather
He would go and steal it
495
01:21:05,728 --> 01:21:17,240
A cobbler's conscience can stretch
Just as well as his shoes
496
01:21:17,306 --> 01:21:25,147
And once the hide has left the tanner's
Then it's stretch, stretch, stretch!
497
01:21:25,214 --> 01:21:28,751
Leather is only of use in the right place
498
01:22:07,490 --> 01:22:11,761
When Nuremberg lay under siege
And there was famine
499
01:22:11,827 --> 01:22:15,665
Land and city would have been ruined
500
01:22:15,731 --> 01:22:20,803
If a tailor, a tailor,
a tailor hadn't been at hand
501
01:22:20,870 --> 01:22:25,007
Who had much courage and cunning
502
01:22:25,074 --> 01:22:28,978
He sewed himself into a goatskin
503
01:22:30,413 --> 01:22:34,583
And went walking on the city wall
504
01:22:34,650 --> 01:22:38,721
And capered there
Merrily and cheerfully
505
01:22:40,156 --> 01:22:44,527
The enemy sees this and withdraws
The devil may take the city
506
01:22:44,593 --> 01:22:51,667
If there are still such bleaters in there!
Me-e-eh, me-e-eh, me-e-eh!
507
01:22:51,734 --> 01:22:58,040
Who'd think there was a tailor,
a tailor, a tailor inside the goat!
508
01:22:58,107 --> 01:23:06,682
Famine! Famine!
What hideous suffering
509
01:23:06,749 --> 01:23:15,558
Without the daily bread from the baker
The whole world would die
510
01:23:15,624 --> 01:23:18,527
Bake,bake,bake!
511
01:23:18,594 --> 01:23:25,935
Each day on the spot
Take away our hunger!
512
01:23:26,002 --> 01:23:33,442
Stretch, stretch, stretch!
Leather is only of use in the right place!
513
01:23:33,509 --> 01:23:35,811
Me-e-eh, me-e-eh, me-e-eh!
514
01:23:35,878 --> 01:23:39,915
Who'd think there was a tailor
inside the goat!
515
01:23:49,191 --> 01:23:54,930
Hurrah! Hurrah! Girls from FiJrth!
516
01:23:57,299 --> 01:24:05,775
Town pipers, play, town pipers, play!
Play on, let's get merry!
517
01:24:41,210 --> 01:24:48,451
Dancing?
What will the masters say?
518
01:24:50,486 --> 01:24:57,326
Don't care?
Then make way for me too
519
01:25:07,136 --> 01:25:14,143
David! David! Lena's watching!
520
01:25:27,756 --> 01:25:32,194
Ah! Enough of your jokes!
521
01:26:45,668 --> 01:26:48,103
The mastersingers!
522
01:26:49,772 --> 01:26:55,010
Heavens! Farewell, you pretty young things!
523
01:29:59,061 --> 01:30:02,331
Silence!
524
01:30:05,534 --> 01:30:09,004
Silence!
525
01:30:12,107 --> 01:30:18,881
No talking and no murmuring!
526
01:30:18,947 --> 01:30:24,820
Ha! Sachs! It's Sachs!
Look, Master Sachs!
527
01:30:24,887 --> 01:30:29,892
Begin!
528
01:30:38,233 --> 01:30:49,745
Awake
529
01:30:49,812 --> 01:31:00,923
Another day is dawning
530
01:31:00,989 --> 01:31:12,167
In the green grove I hear the singing
531
01:31:12,234 --> 01:31:24,012
Of a blissful nightingale
532
01:31:24,079 --> 01:31:38,260
Its voice rings through hill and valley
533
01:31:38,327 --> 01:31:49,238
Night is sinking in the west
534
01:31:49,304 --> 01:32:00,082
The day arises in the east
535
01:32:00,148 --> 01:32:12,027
The ardent red dawn
536
01:32:12,094 --> 01:32:24,206
Approaches through the gloomy clouds
537
01:32:24,273 --> 01:32:28,677
Hail! Hail!
538
01:32:28,744 --> 01:32:34,650
Hail to you, Hans Sachs!
539
01:32:34,716 --> 01:32:39,221
Hail to Nuremberg's Sachs!
540
01:32:41,223 --> 01:32:49,598
Hail to Nuremberg's dear Sachs!
541
01:32:52,401 --> 01:33:04,780
Hail! Hail!
542
01:33:42,618 --> 01:33:56,498
You make it easy for you
But for me you make it hard
543
01:33:56,565 --> 01:34:07,209
You do me, poor man, too much honour
544
01:34:13,015 --> 01:34:22,124
To fulfil this honour
545
01:34:22,190 --> 01:34:34,036
I must be sure I'm worthy of your love
546
01:34:37,172 --> 01:34:48,050
To be named as today's speaker
Already brings distinction
547
01:34:48,116 --> 01:35:02,364
And what my speech shall tell you
Believe me, is full of high honours
548
01:35:02,431 --> 01:35:12,174
If you already honour art so highly
It was necessary to prove
549
01:35:12,240 --> 01:35:22,651
That he who cleaves to it for its own sake
Esteems it above all prizes
550
01:35:22,718 --> 01:35:32,360
A master, rich and high-minded
Will show you this today
551
01:35:32,427 --> 01:35:49,411
His daughter, his greatest treasure
With all his goods and possessions
552
01:35:51,246 --> 01:36:00,088
To the singer who in the song contest
Wins the prize before all the people
553
01:36:00,155 --> 01:36:08,029
As crown for the highest prize
He offers as reward
554
01:36:08,096 --> 01:36:17,339
Therefore listen and endorse my words
The contest is open to the poet
555
01:36:17,405 --> 01:36:31,553
You masters who are bold to try
I proclaim it to you before the people
556
01:36:33,054 --> 01:36:42,497
Consider the contest's rare prize
And whoever shall succeed
557
01:36:42,564 --> 01:36:53,375
Let him know himself pure and noble
In wooing as in singing
558
01:36:53,441 --> 01:36:56,678
If he will win the laurels
559
01:36:56,745 --> 01:37:05,987
Which never yet, among moderns or ancients
Were set so splendidly high
560
01:37:06,721 --> 01:37:18,133
As by this lovely pure maiden
Who shall never regret
561
01:37:18,200 --> 01:37:36,418
That Nuremberg with highest worth
Honours art and its masters!
562
01:37:47,162 --> 01:37:55,737
O Sachs, my friend! Heartfelt thanks!
563
01:37:55,804 --> 01:38:01,843
You know well what troubles me
564
01:38:03,511 --> 01:38:09,351
You've risked much, now take courage
565
01:38:09,417 --> 01:38:12,621
Mr Marker! All going well?
566
01:38:14,389 --> 01:38:21,796
Oh! This song! I just can't grasp it
And yet I've studied it long enough
567
01:38:21,863 --> 01:38:26,067
My friend, it's not being forced on you
568
01:38:26,134 --> 01:38:30,338
What use is that?
My own's sung out
569
01:38:30,405 --> 01:38:33,508
It was your fault!
Now you be kind to me
570
01:38:33,575 --> 01:38:36,544
It would be shameful
if you left me in the lurch
571
01:38:36,611 --> 01:38:38,980
- I thought you'd give up
- A fine idea!
572
01:38:39,047 --> 01:38:42,384
I'll outsing all the others
As long as you don't sing
573
01:38:42,450 --> 01:38:43,551
See how it goes then
574
01:38:43,618 --> 01:38:47,589
The song, I'm sure, no one will understand
575
01:38:47,656 --> 01:38:50,725
But I'm relying on your popularity
576
01:38:50,792 --> 01:38:59,968
Well then, if masters and people agree
Let the song contest begin
577
01:39:01,136 --> 01:39:05,407
Bachelor masters, make ready!
578
01:39:05,473 --> 01:39:09,110
The eldest shall appear first!
579
01:39:09,177 --> 01:39:15,383
Mr Beckmesser you shall begin, it's time!
580
01:39:28,330 --> 01:39:32,534
The devil! How wobbly!
Make sure you make it steady!
581
01:39:42,644 --> 01:39:47,949
What, him? He's wooing?
He's clearly not right for her!
582
01:39:48,016 --> 01:39:50,919
If I was the daughter I wouldn't want him!
583
01:40:01,396 --> 01:40:06,234
A vote and a seat!
He has a vote and a seat in the council
584
01:40:07,569 --> 01:40:10,171
How will he get on?
He can't even stand up straight!
585
01:40:10,238 --> 01:40:12,941
Be quiet! He is a very able Master!
586
01:40:13,008 --> 01:40:16,344
He's the town clerk, Beckmesser's his name
587
01:40:19,514 --> 01:40:26,354
Silence! Silence!
588
01:40:28,590 --> 01:40:34,129
No talking and no murmuring!
589
01:40:43,471 --> 01:40:46,808
Begin!
590
01:41:39,127 --> 01:41:50,705
Morning I shine in a rosy light
591
01:41:50,772 --> 01:42:01,983
With blood and scent
The air moves fast
592
01:42:02,050 --> 01:42:16,231
Probably soon won
As if dissolved
593
01:42:16,264 --> 01:42:25,740
In the garden I invited
Horrid and fine
594
01:42:27,275 --> 01:42:30,445
- My! what's that?
- Strange!
595
01:42:30,512 --> 01:42:35,350
- Is he out of his mind?
- Did you hear?
596
01:42:35,416 --> 01:42:38,453
Did we understand right?
597
01:42:38,520 --> 01:42:44,492
Where does he get such thoughts from?
598
01:42:47,028 --> 01:42:53,101
Did we understand right?
599
01:42:58,439 --> 01:43:05,647
I live passably in the same place
600
01:43:05,713 --> 01:43:11,753
Fetch gold and fruit
Lead-juice and weight
601
01:43:16,391 --> 01:43:26,000
The aspirant
Fetches me from the gallows
602
01:43:26,067 --> 01:43:35,043
On airy paths scarcely
I hang from the tree
603
01:43:36,544 --> 01:43:45,220
A fine wooer! He'll get his reward
604
01:43:50,391 --> 01:43:56,364
He'll soon be on the gallows
We can see it now!
605
01:44:05,473 --> 01:44:08,376
Secretly I abhor
606
01:44:08,443 --> 01:44:11,212
What will get merry here
607
01:44:11,279 --> 01:44:16,150
By my ladder stood a woman
608
01:44:16,217 --> 01:44:21,022
She blushed and did not want to look at me
609
01:44:21,089 --> 01:44:24,959
Pale as a cabbage
Hemp wound about my body
610
01:44:25,026 --> 01:44:28,563
Blinking its eye
The dog blew winkingly
611
01:44:28,630 --> 01:44:30,932
What I long devoured
612
01:44:30,999 --> 01:44:34,235
Like fruit, and wood and horse
From the tree of liver
613
01:44:41,609 --> 01:44:45,847
Damn you, cobbler!
It's you I have to thank for this!
614
01:44:45,913 --> 01:44:48,383
This song is not by me at all
615
01:44:48,449 --> 01:44:52,854
By Sachs, who is so highly revered here
By your Sachs it was given to me
616
01:44:52,920 --> 01:44:57,292
The disgraceful fellow bullied me
Into accepting this awful trash
617
01:44:57,358 --> 01:45:00,728
My! What does that mean?
It's getting ever more confusing!
618
01:45:00,795 --> 01:45:04,732
The song by Sachs? That would amaze us!
619
01:45:04,799 --> 01:45:08,770
- Sachs! What a scandal!
- By you, the song?
620
01:45:10,405 --> 01:45:13,074
What a strange occurrence!
621
01:45:14,976 --> 01:45:27,455
The song in truth is not by me
Beckmesser is wrong in every respect
622
01:45:30,725 --> 01:45:41,703
Let him tell you himself how he came by it
But I should never dare to boast
623
01:45:41,769 --> 01:45:55,049
A song as beautifully conceived as this
Had been composed by me, Hans Sachs
624
01:45:55,116 --> 01:46:02,156
- What? Beautiful? This confused rubbish?
- This song, beautiful?
625
01:46:02,223 --> 01:46:10,465
Sachs is joking! He only says it for fun
626
01:46:10,531 --> 01:46:21,342
I tell you, gentlemen, the song is beautiful
Only, it's easy to see at a glance
627
01:46:21,409 --> 01:46:32,987
That friend Beckmesser has distorted it
But I swear it will please you
628
01:46:33,054 --> 01:46:44,732
If someone here were to sing
The words and music properly
629
01:46:44,799 --> 01:46:54,142
And whoever managed this would also show
That he was poet of the song
630
01:46:54,208 --> 01:47:02,116
And he would rightly be named master
If he were to find just judges
631
01:47:04,719 --> 01:47:17,932
I am accused and I must stand trial
So let me choose my witness
632
01:47:18,533 --> 01:47:31,379
If someone here knows I speak truthfully
Let him enter this circle as witness!
633
01:47:48,529 --> 01:48:00,174
Give witness that this song is not by me
And give witness also that what I have here
634
01:48:00,241 --> 01:48:05,379
Said of this song
Is not an exaggeration
635
01:48:06,481 --> 01:48:12,186
- How artful!
- Deftly handled, Sachs!
636
01:48:12,253 --> 01:48:16,824
But we'll let it pass for today
637
01:48:16,891 --> 01:48:25,099
The value of a rule can be appreciated
When sometimes it allows an exception
638
01:48:26,133 --> 01:48:34,275
A good witness, proud and bold!
Something good will come of him
639
01:48:34,342 --> 01:48:43,017
Masters and townsfolk are of a mind
To hear what my witness can do
640
01:48:43,084 --> 01:48:53,995
Walther von Stolzing, sing the song!
Masters, read, see if he brings it off
641
01:48:58,399 --> 01:49:01,202
All is expectancy!
642
01:49:03,671 --> 01:49:08,543
There's not a murmur
643
01:49:08,609 --> 01:49:15,116
So we shall not call "silence!"
644
01:50:06,567 --> 01:50:15,476
Shining in the rosy light of morning,
645
01:50:15,543 --> 01:50:20,214
The air heavy
With blossom and scent
646
01:50:20,281 --> 01:50:27,121
Full of every
Unthought-of joy
647
01:50:27,188 --> 01:50:31,292
A garden invited me
648
01:50:31,359 --> 01:50:40,868
There, beneath a wondrous tree
Laden with rich fruit
649
01:50:40,935 --> 01:50:51,312
To behold in a blessed dream of love
Boldly promising fulfilment
650
01:50:51,379 --> 01:50:55,916
To the highest of joy's desires
651
01:50:55,983 --> 01:51:08,095
The most beautiful woman
Eva in Paradise
652
01:51:08,162 --> 01:51:17,872
- That's another matter, who'd have thought
- Yes, indeed! I see, it makes a difference
653
01:51:17,938 --> 01:51:23,477
- What a difference the right delivery makes
- If one sings it wrong or right
654
01:51:23,544 --> 01:51:29,450
Witness, here present
Continue!
655
01:51:30,651 --> 01:51:39,060
In the evening twilight
Night enfolded me
656
01:51:39,126 --> 01:51:44,198
On a steep path
I had approached
657
01:51:44,265 --> 01:51:49,503
A spring
Of pure water
658
01:51:49,570 --> 01:51:54,275
Which smiled at me enticingly
659
01:51:54,341 --> 01:52:03,284
There beneath a laurel tree
With stars shining through its leaves
660
01:52:03,350 --> 01:52:13,994
In a poet's waking dream I beheld
Holy and fair of countenance
661
01:52:14,061 --> 01:52:18,332
Sprinkling me with the precious water
662
01:52:18,399 --> 01:52:31,078
The fairest woman
The Muse of Parnassus!
663
01:52:31,145 --> 01:52:35,449
- It's bold and strange, that's true
- So gracious and familiar when it soars
664
01:52:35,516 --> 01:52:39,987
- But well-rhymed and singable
- As if we were there with him!
665
01:52:40,054 --> 01:52:49,463
Well-chosen witness!
Continue and conclude!
666
01:52:49,530 --> 01:52:57,204
Most gracious day
To which I awoke from a poet's dream!
667
01:52:57,271 --> 01:53:07,081
The Paradise of which I had dreamed
In heavenly, new-transfigured splendour
668
01:53:07,148 --> 01:53:10,818
Brightly lay before me
669
01:53:10,885 --> 01:53:17,725
To which the spring laughingly
Now showed me the path
670
01:53:17,792 --> 01:53:26,600
She, born there
My heart's elect
671
01:53:26,667 --> 01:53:32,039
Earth's loveliest picture
Destined to be my Muse
672
01:53:32,106 --> 01:53:41,916
As holy and grave as she is mild
Was boldly wooed by me
673
01:53:41,982 --> 01:53:51,192
In the sun's bright daylight
Through victory in song, I had won
674
01:53:51,258 --> 01:54:02,670
Parnassus and Paradise!
675
01:54:04,505 --> 01:54:12,746
Take the wreath
The prize is yours!
676
01:54:12,813 --> 01:54:19,720
No-one can woo as graciously as he!
677
01:54:19,787 --> 01:54:32,099
Happiness and honour
Gone are all the cares of my heart!
678
01:54:32,099 --> 01:54:36,837
His is the prize!
679
01:54:46,347 --> 01:55:10,104
No-one can woo as graciously as you!
680
01:55:21,081 --> 01:55:34,528
The witness, I think, I chose well
Does anyone hold it against Hans Sachs?
681
01:55:34,595 --> 01:55:51,178
Hans Sachs! No! This was neatly done!
You've made everything turn out right again
682
01:55:59,920 --> 01:56:12,166
Come, Master Pogner! Let it be your honour
To announce to the knight his mastership!
683
01:56:15,636 --> 01:56:30,818
Adorned with King David's picture
I welcome you into the guild of masters!
684
01:56:32,853 --> 01:56:37,758
Not Master! No!
685
01:56:42,830 --> 01:56:50,537
I will be happy without masterhood
686
01:57:14,795 --> 01:57:23,203
I bid you, scorn the masters not
687
01:57:24,071 --> 01:57:31,078
And honour their art
688
01:57:34,181 --> 01:57:43,757
What speaks high in their praise
Fell richly in your favour
689
01:57:43,824 --> 01:57:52,566
Not to your ancestors, however worthy
Not to your coat of arms, spear, or sword
690
01:57:52,633 --> 01:58:00,574
But to the fact that you are a poet
That a Master has admitted you
691
01:58:00,641 --> 01:58:12,019
To that you owe today your highest happiness
So, think back to this with gratitude
692
01:58:12,086 --> 01:58:24,965
How can the art be unworthy
Which embraces such prizes?
693
01:58:27,367 --> 01:58:35,843
That our Masters have cared for it
Rightly in their own way
694
01:58:35,909 --> 01:58:44,284
Cherished it truly as they thought best
That has kept it genuine
695
01:58:44,351 --> 01:58:55,028
If it did not remain aristocratic as of old
When courts and princes blessed it
696
01:58:55,095 --> 01:59:05,339
In the stress of evil years
It remained German and true
697
01:59:05,405 --> 01:59:11,512
And if it flourished in no other way
Than being pushed and pressed by all
698
01:59:11,578 --> 01:59:24,258
You see how high it remained in honour
What more would you ask of the Masters?
699
01:59:25,792 --> 01:59:35,702
Beware! Evil tricks threaten us
700
01:59:37,804 --> 01:59:43,343
If the German realm should one day decay
701
01:59:43,410 --> 01:59:54,688
Under a false, foreign rule
Soon no prince would understand his people
702
01:59:54,755 --> 02:00:04,998
And foreign mists with foreign vanities
They would plant in our German land
703
02:00:05,799 --> 02:00:23,317
What is German and true none would know
Lived it not in the honour of German masters
704
02:00:24,952 --> 02:00:37,331
Therefore I say to you
Honour your German masters
705
02:00:38,565 --> 02:00:44,271
Then you will conjure up good spirits
706
02:00:44,338 --> 02:00:51,178
And if you favour their endeavours
707
02:00:53,280 --> 02:00:57,050
And were to perish
708
02:00:57,117 --> 02:01:03,724
The Holy Roman Empire
709
02:01:03,790 --> 02:01:10,564
For us would yet remain
710
02:01:10,631 --> 02:01:17,504
Holy German art!
711
02:01:18,438 --> 02:01:26,680
Honour your German Masters
712
02:01:28,515 --> 02:01:36,523
Then you will conjure up good spirits
713
02:01:36,590 --> 02:01:43,764
And if you favour their endeavours
714
02:01:43,830 --> 02:01:49,069
And were to perish
715
02:01:49,136 --> 02:01:57,110
The Holy Roman Empire
716
02:02:02,049 --> 02:02:07,521
For us would yet remain
717
02:02:18,465 --> 02:02:23,170
Holy German art!
718
02:02:51,531 --> 02:03:02,642
Hail, Sachs!
Nuremberg's dear Sachs!
719
02:08:49,522 --> 02:08:54,794
720
02:08:58,598 --> 02:09:03,870