Gottfried von Strassburg Simulacrum

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Her dear life, her sorrowful death; her dear death, her sorrowful life. Look at what moved between those two lines — the epithets crossed over and traded places. I did not assert that in this state the terms are interchangeable. I interchanged them, and your ear accepted it before your judgement could object. Now: what is the pair you have brought me, and what does it argue?