Potatores exquisiti

Licet sitis sine siti,

Et bibatis expediti

Et scyphorum inobliti.

Scyphi crebro repetiti,

Non dormiant,

Et sermones inauditi

Prosiliant.

 Exquisite drinkers

Drinking without thirst,

Drinking without thinking,

Until you are stinking.

Mugs always in hand,

You drink and never sleep;

Missing your lectures, 

You still find life deep!
 
 

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Adapted from Helen Waddell, Mediæval Latin Lyrics (London-New York: Constable-Barnes & Noble, 1966) 184-185 and George F. Whicher, The Goliard Poets: Medieval Latin Songs and Satires (New York: New Directions, 1965) 234-235