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And when their bones into confusion fall,
Say ye, who knew the living man by sight,
Which is the villein now and which the knight?

— Walther von der Vogelweide

Wer kan den hêrren von dem knehte gescheiden,
swâ er ir gebeine blôzez fünde,
het er ir joch lebender künde?

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