Let us explore the topic of entertainment by looking at two medieval Latin songs - a love song and a drinking song - taken from the Carmina Burana. The Carmina Burana is a collection of songs composed by itinerant scholar-poets ("goliards") in the region of Germany and France, between the 10th and 13th centuries A.D. The manuscript that preserves them was discovered in 1803 at the Benedictine monastery in Benediktbeuern, Bavaria. It is one of our most important sources for secular medieval Latin poetry. Many of you will be familiar with these songs from the brilliant musical setting provided by Carl Orff's 1937 cantata. latinae: I. [fragmentum] 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 magnus. Bibit pauper et egrotus, bibit exul et ignotus, bibit puer, bibit canus, bibit presul et decanus, bibit soror, bibit frater, bibit anus, bibit mater, bibit ista, bibit ille, bibunt centum, bibunt mille. II. [fragmentum] Ama me fideliter fidem meam nota: de corde totaliter et ex mente tota sum presentialiter absens in remota, quisquis amat taliter, volvitur in rota. In English: 1. [Excerpt] The lady drinks, the master drinks, the soldier drinks, the cleric drinks, that man drinks and that woman drinks, the servant boy drinks with the maid; the quick man drinks, the sluggard drinks, the white man drinks, the black man drinks, the settler drinks, the wanderer drinks, the clodhopper drinks, and the magnifico. The pauper drinks and the sick man, too, the exile and the stranger; the young boy drinks, the old man drinks, the bishop and the deacon; the sister drinks, the brother drinks, the granny drinks, the mother drinks, that woman drinks and also that man, a hundred are drinking, and a thousand more. 2. [Excerpt] Love me ever faithfully, seeing my good constancy: with all my heart, entirely, and all my mind and soul, I am with you utterly No matter where I go. Whoever loves to this degree is turning on a wheel.