frag?)! (very amiable again, making a visible effort: #107:) Take this, and drink my refreshment! My drink has often refreshed you: (#107 >> or #108?:) though you acted morosely, affecting malice, you always took (:#107) what I offered, even when enraged.
Siegfried: (#122 vari:) I’d be glad of something good to drink: how did you brew this one here?
Mime: (merrily joking, as though describing a pleasantly intoxicated state which the juice would induce: #122 vari:) Hey, just drink it: trust in my art [“Kunst”] (:#122 end frag [Mime’s potion])! (#122 vari: [with the oscillating chords associated with Mime’s potion, sounding like a clock’s tick-tock or metronome]) in darkness [“Nacht”] and mist [“Nebel,” as in Nibelheim]) your senses will soon be shrouded: unwaking, unwitting, you’ll straightaway stretch out your limbs (:#122 vari). (#117:; #107 vari?:) And once you’re lying there, (#33b [presumably a hint of (#@: b)?]) then I could easily take the spoils and conceal them (:#117; :#107 vari?): (#122 vari [incorporating the “tick-tock’ from above]) but if you were ever to waken, nowhere would I be safe from you, though I had the ring itself (:#122 vari [tick tock]). (#117:; #107?:) And so with the (#33b) sword, which you made so sharp (:#122) (in a gesture of unrestrained merriment: #122 vari? [the tick-tock ascending and descending]) I’ll first hack off the child’s head: then I’ll have peace of mind and the ring as well! (sniggering)
Siegfried: (#17 in the bass?:) You mean to murder me while I’m asleep (:#17 in the bass?)?
Mime: (furiously angry) I mean to do what? Is that what I said? – (striving to adopt the most tender expression: #107:) I want only (with the most meticulous clarity) to hack the child’s head off (:#107). (with an expression of sincere concern for Siegfried’s health: #108 >>:) For even if I hated you less and hadn’t so much of your hateful abuse and such shameful toil to avenge, (gently) I’d still waste no time in clearing you out of the way (:#108) (joking again: #128a?: #17 or #101 harmony? [perhaps music referencing Mime’s remark to Siegfried: “You’ll thank me for bringing you here,” i.e. to learn fear, and/or Mime’s comment: “Recall how much Mime loves you,” both from S.2.2?]) for how else could I gain the spoils, (#128b?:) since Alberich covets them, too (:#128a?; #17 or #101 harmony?; :#128b?)? (He pours the juice into the drinking-horn and offers it to Siegfried with an insistent gesture: #129) (#131:; #66?:) now, my Waelsung, son of Wolfe
