The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #163255   Message #3893442
Posted By: Rapparee
11-Dec-17 - 09:16 PM
Thread Name: BS: A giant wombat wanders into a Tavern
Subject: RE: BS: A giant wombat wanders into a Tavern
Finishing his song, he begins another:

In 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...


and stops when a tankard, thrown by Squiddy, knocks him unconscious.