In Taberna Quando Sumus (Codex Burana) ----------------------- [when we are in the tavern] Once for the buyer of the wine free men drink out of it; once they drink for those in jail, after that, three times for the living, four times for all Christians, five times for those who died in the Faith, six times for the weak sisters, seven times for the forces on forest duty. Eight times for errant brothers, nine times for monks dispersed, ten times for sailors, eleven times for quarrellers, twelve times for penitents, thirteen times for those going on a journey, the same for the Pope as for the king, everyone drinks without licence. The mistress drinks, the master drinks, the soldier drinks, the cleric drinks, this man drinks, that woman drinks, the quick man drinks, the lazy man drinks, the white man drinks, the black man drinks, the regular drinks, the stray customer drinks, the greenhorn drinks, the wise man drinks. The poor man drinks, and the invalid, the exile drinks, and the man nobody knows, the boy drinks, the greybeard drinks, the president drinks, and the deacon, the sister drinks, the brother drinks, the old man drinks, the mother drinks, that woman drinks, this man drinks, a hundred drink, a thousand drink. Six hundred pence are too few to last, when unbridaled and unceasingly they are all drinking. Let them cheerfully drink to the maximum, people plague us all so, and so poor we shall be. Let those who plague us be confounded, and not be accounted with the righteous. lo!