Carmina Burana
6 / 20
In Taberna
Bibit hera, bibit herus, bibit miles, bibit clerus
The mistress drinks, the master drinks, the soldier drinks, the cleric drinks
Context
A catalogue of universal drunkenness. The parallelism is deliberate: alcohol is the great leveler, just as Death is in the danse macabre. The medieval mind connected the two.