(16-03-2026, 08:38 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.My guess (as a non-native speaker) is that it should be "und do man as": "and as they ate". This follows from the rich man and the poor man having the "mittag mal" together. The OCR dreamed up the G.
The text is not from OCR of a manuscript. It is a Google scan of Adelbert von Keller's scholarly edition: Fastnachtspiele aus dem fünfzehnten Jahrhundert (Stuttgart, 1853). Keller was a philologist who read the manuscripts and produced a printed text. The "G" is what Keller printed: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
Separately, the Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm has an entry for "Gänsemilch" that cites the same Folz Fastnachtspiel (page 1201). The Grimm editors describe it as appearing "in einem scherzhaften Recepte" — in a humorous recipe. The cited passage reads "gens milch" as two words, not as a single compound. The entry also notes the Low German parallel "hê verstêt dat gausemelken nich" — he doesn't understand goose-milking — meaning he doesn't know what he's doing. "Gôsemelker" is listed as an insult. (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.)
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So the Grimm brothers' dictionary confirms that the passage is about "Gänsemilch" (goose milk), that the word is written as two separate words "gens milch," and that the context is comedy, not a real recipe.