Goliard ".. meum est propositum in taberna mori..."
Any of the wandering students and clerics in medieval England, France, and
Germany remembered for their satirical verses and poems in praise of
debauchery and against the church and pope. Renegades of no fixed abode,
chiefly interested in riotous living, they described themselves as followers of the
legendary Bishop Golias. By a series of decrees (from 1227), the church
eventually revoked their clerical privileges. Carmina Burana is a collection of
13th-cent. Latin goliard poems and songs; some were translated by J. A.
Symonds as Wine, Women, and Song (1884), and some were set in a famous
cantata by C. Orff (1937). In the 14th cent. the term came to mean jongleur, or
minstrel.

Intriguing, Dr. Bill! I'll have to find a site with some of the poems and lyrics. Do you have a link handy?

I got a good link at work but can't seem to find it here. It has all the lyrics. I'll toss it into the mix tomorrow. I've got a book with everything and poetic translations into German, too. There was no music in the original manuscript; they know some of the tunes because there are other settings of them and some have notes referencing tunes of other pieces that we know. Some have even had modern medieval style tunes written for them. You could ask Jackie or the ASp.

Here is one URL, with a literal and a metrical translation. If you use just the
first line I gave to search, there are quite a few sites.

http://ingeb.org/Lieder/meumestp.html