Ego sum abbas Cucaniensis.......... I am the abbot of Cockaigne et consilium meum est cum bibulis,..and my assembly is one of drinkers, et in secta Decii voluntas mea est, and I wish to be in the order of Decius, et qui mane me quesierit in taberna,and whoever searches me out at the
................................ tavern in the morning, post vesperam nudus egredietur,.... after Vespers he will leave naked, et sic denudatus veste clamabit:....and thus stripped of his clothes he
................................ will call out:
(Baritone and Male Chorus) Wafna, wafna!...................... Woe! Woe! quid fecisti sors turpissima?...... what have you done, vilest Fate? Nostre vite gaudia..................the joys of my life abstulisti omnia!.................. you have taken all away!