Meldundleize

• Mild und leise: (German) softly and gently → the opening word's from Isolde’s Liebestod in Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde

• melden: (German) to announce

• meld: (1) to merge, combine (2) a technical term in some card games, meaning to declare or show a card or combination of cards in order to claim a score → there are a number of other terms from playing-cards in this passage