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Cover Introduction Main Index Further Study Carmina Burana 1. O Fortuna 2. Fortunae plango vulnera 3. Veris laeta facies 4. Omnia sol temperata 5. Ecce gratum 6. Tanz - (instrumental) 7. Floret silva nobilis 8. Chramer, gip die varwe mir 9. Swaz hie gat umbe 10.Were diu werlt alle min 11. Aestuans interius 12. Olim lacus colueram 13. Ego sum abbas 14. In taberna quando sumus 15. Amor volat undique 16. Dies, nox, et omnia 17. Stetit puella 18. Circa mea pectora 19. Si puer cum puella 20. Veni, veni, venias 21. In trutina 22. Tempus est iocundum 23. Dulcissime 24. Ave formosissima |
14. IN TABERNA QUANDO SUMUSA drinking song. In the third and fourth stanzas the Latin frequentative adverbs are translated with their classical meaning, three times (ter), four times (quater), etc. It is possible, however, that they are used as ordinal adverbs, i.e. ter means thirdly, in the third place, etc. Why a toast involving bis twice is missing is not obvious -- there may be textual corruption. IN TABERNA QUANDO SUMUSIn taberna quando sumus, non curamus quid sit humus, sed ad ludum properamus, cui semper insudamus. quid agatur in taberna ubi nummus est pincerna, hoc est opus ut quaeratur; si quid loquar, audiatur. Quidam ludunt, quidam bibunt, quidam indiscrete vivunt. sed in ludo qui morantur, ex his quidam denudantur, quidam ibi vestiuntur, quidam saccis induuntur; ibi nullus timet mortem, sed pro Baccho mittunt sortem. Primo pro nummata vini; ex hac bibunt libertini; semel bibunt pro captivis, post haec bibunt ter pro vivis, quater pro Christianis cunctis, quinquies pro fidelibus defunctis, sexies pro sororibus vanis, septies pro militibus silvanis. octies pro fratribus perversis, nonies pro monachis dispersis, decies pro navigantibus, undecies pro discordantibus, duodecies pro paenitentibus, tredecies pro iter agentibus. Tam pro papa quam pro rege bibunt omnes sine lege. Bibit hera, bibit herus, bibit miles, bibit clerus, bibit ille, bibit illa, bibit servus cum ancilla, bibit velox, bibit piger, bibit albus, bibit niger, bibit constans, bibit vagus, bibit rudis, bibit magus, Bibit pauper et aegrotus, bibit exul et ignotus, bibit puer, bibit canus, bibit praesul et decanus, bibit soror, bibit frater, bibit anus, bibit mater, bibit ista, bibit ille, bibunt centum, bibunt mille. Parum sescentae nummatae durant cum immoderate bibunt omnes sine meta, quamvis bibant mente laeta; sic nos rodunt omnes gentes, et sic erimus egentes. qui nos rodunt confundantur et cum iustis non scribantur. When we are in the tavern, we do not care about what earth is (i.e. what we are made of), we set about gambling and over that we always sweat. We must investigate what happens in the tavern where money is the butler; pay attention to what I say. Some gamble, some drink, some live without discretion. From those who spend their time in gambling, some are stripped bare, some win clothes, some are dressed in sacks; there no-one fears death, but for the wine they throw dice. First, for the payment of the wine (i.e. who pays for the wine). Then the boozers start to drink; they drink once to those in prison, after that, three times for the living, four times for all Christendom, five times for the faithful departed, six times for sisters of loose virtue, seven times for soldiers of the forest, eight times for brothers in error, nine times for scattered monks, ten times for those who sail, eleven times for men quarrelling, twelve times for those doing penance, thirteen times for those on journeys. For pope and king alike all drink without restraint. The mistress drinks, so does the master, the soldier drinks, so does the cleric, that man drinks, that woman drinks, the servant drinks with the maid, the fast man drinks, so does the slow, the white man drinks, so does the black, the stay-at-home drinks, so does the wanderer, the fool drinks, so does the scholar. The poor drink, and the sick, the exile and the unknown, the boy, the greybeard, the bishop, the deacon, sister, brother, old woman, mother, that woman, this man, they drink by the hundred, by the thousand. Large sums of money last too short a time when everybody drinks without moderation and limit, even though they drink with a happy heart; in this everyone sponges on us and it will make us poor. Damnation to those who sponge on us! Put not their names in the book of Just. |
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