“…Specifically, the woman would be replying with the Lanzelet's proemial truism about the impossibility of pleasing everybody to Verse 1 of Alram's poems, where the poet asks his beloved to answer his loving pleas. 27 This quotation could, however, also be read as both more limited in length and larger in scope. The first line of Ulrich's poem might convey a coded message to the audience of the Manesse plate, and engage the reader not so much with the full aphorism or the entire poem, but with the truncated sentence itself, as an invitation to reflect upon truth or falsity of language.…”