“How I wish I had your looks! If only you had some sense in you, God would have left you nothing to wish for.”

— Wolfram von Eschenbach, book Parzival

Ôwî wan wær dîn schœne mîn!
dir hete got den wunsch gegebn,
ob du mit witzen soldest lebn.
Bk. 3, st. 124, line 18; p. 74.
Parzival

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