Doubly sly the dwarf must be: I’ll set the most cunning snare now and fool the defiant child with falsely friendly words (:#? [possible mother-ruminations?])!
(He comes close to Siegfried and welcomes him with wheedling gestures: #129?; #66 or #106?)
Mime: [[ #131: ]] [Music which may foreshadow some of the musical moods and rhythms of the opening of T.1.1 which introduces the Gibichungs Gunther (#152), Gutrune (#156), and Hagen (#151), and also Gunther’s falsely friendly greeting to Siegfried at Gibichung Hall in T.1.2 (#155) ?]) Welcome, (#129) Siegfried! Tell me, brave boy, have you learned the meaning of fear?
Siegfried: (#122) I’ve not yet found a teacher.
Mime: (#131:; #66 or #106?:) But you’ve slain (#129) the snake-like dragon: he must have been a poor companion (:#131; :#66 or #106?)
Siegfried: (#?: [unusual harmony, maybe mix of #20a with #101?]; #voc? – what is it?:) Grim and spiteful though he was (:#? – [unusual harmony?]), his death yet grieves me deeply (#?: [unusual harmony from above repeated – perhaps #20a &/or #101?]) since far worse villains (:#? [unusual harmony, perhaps 20a &/or #101?]) still remain unslain (:#voc?)! (#123 vari horn: [chords may be a mixture of #20a with #101?]) The man who bade me murder him I hate much more than the dragon.
Mime: (very amiably: #131 >>:; #66 or #106?:) But soft! You’ll not have to see me much longer: (mawkishly) I’ll soon lock your eyes in everlasting sleep (:#131; :#66 or #106?)! (#?: – [further development of #20a &/or #101?]; #?: [rhythm possibly associated with Gunther’s motif #152?, and other musical nuances associated with the Gibichungs and Gibichung hall, such as the “False Friendship motif” #155, and other related Gibichung motifs such as #151, #156, and #171?]) You’ve done (as though praising him) what I needed you for; (#131 >>:; #66 or #106?:) all that I still want to do is to win from you the booty (:#? – [the Gibichung-like material]; :#131; :#66 or #106?): - I think that I ought to succeed in that; (#?: [#20a &/or #101 harmony?]) you’re easy enough to fool after all (:#? [#20a &/or #101 harmony?])!
