Equal Rites (Terry David John Pratchett) читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги

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Treatle refers here to the old student’s (drinking) song ‘Gaudeamus Igitur’, written in 1781 by Christian Wilhelm Kindleben, a priest in Leipzig who got kicked out because of his student songs. The song is still in use at many universities and schools, where it gets sung during graduation ceremonies. The actual lyrics are:

Gaudeamus igitur, iuvenes dum sumus.

Post iucundam iuventutem,

Post molestam senectutem,

Nos habebit humus, nos habebit humus.

Which roughly translates to:

Let us be merry, therefore, whilst we are young men.

After the joys of youth,

After the pain of old age,

The ground will have us, the ground will have us.