The Lübeck Dance of Death - 5

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The Canon, Nobleman, and Physician

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The Canon  
Mi dunckt, it is mi noch to vroch,
Van minen Prunden hadde ik genoch
To bruken went her min Leven;
Late mi des Dansses nach begheven.
Nu scholde ik vullen min Schrin,
Dine velen Worde don mi grote Pin.
Late mi doch Gade denen bat,
Den ik in miner Jöget vergat.

I think it's still too soon for me.
I had enough of my office income
to make good use of in my life, until now.
Let me renounce this dance.
Now I should fill my chest (shrine).
Your many words give me great pain.
Let me then serve God better,
because I forgot it in my youth.
Death answers the Canon and turns to the Mayor
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The Mayor  
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Death answers the Mayor and turns to the Physician
Grot Lon schaltu entfan,
Vor din Arbeit, dat du hefst ghedan,
Wil di God dusentvult belonen,
Unde in deme ewighen Levende kronen.
Mer dine Bedrechlicheit mede
Mochte di bringen in groten Unvrede.
Wultu umme dine Sunde ruwich syn
Volghe na, Meister Medecin.

Great wages shall you receive.
For your work that you have done,
God will reward you thousandfold,
and in the eternal life crown [you].
But your fraudulence may also
bring you in great strife.
Will you regret your sins!
Follow after, Master Medicine.
The Physician
Ik hadde wol Vordrach, mochte it wesen.
Vele Minsken hebbe ik ghenesen,
De van groter Suke leden Not.
Mer jeghen di klene noch grot
En helpet nine Kunst noch Medecin.
Nu bevole ik mi sulven de Pin.
Van deme Dode bin ik beseen,
Wat Ordel dat mi schal bescheen.
I would like postponement, if it might be;
I have cured many people
who were suffering from great diseases.
But against you [helps neither] small nor great;
neither [medical] art nor medicine helps.
Now I surrender myself to the pain.
I have been looked at by Death,
what[ever] fate that shall happen to me.
Death answers the Physician and turns to the Usurer
Recht Ordel schaltu entfan,
Na den Wercken, de du hefst ghedan.
Du hefst ghedan, dat God wol wet,
Mengen in grot Eventur gheset,
Den Armen swarlik beschat,
Des he vaken billik hadde to bat.
Al nemestu grote Summen darvan,
Wokerer, volghe van Stunden an.
You shall receive a just sentence
according to the works that you have done.
You have, God knows this well,
brought many into great danger.
Taken large fees from the poor,
that often rightly belonged to him.
Always you took great sums for it.
Usurer, follow from this moment.
 
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