“Let us be off from here and pay the bill.”
Ulenspiegel answered:
“When the rat is in the cheese, doth he ask to leave it?”
“Nay,” said they.
“And when a man eats well and drinks well, does he seek out the dust of the roads and the water from springs full of leeches?”
“Nay, indeed,” said they.
“Well, then,” said Ulenspiegel, “let us stay here as long as my florins and daelders serve us as funnels to pour into our throats the drinks that bring us to laughter.”
And he bade the host bring still more wine and more sausage.
While they drank and ate, Ulenspiegel said:
“’Tis I who pay, I am landgrave for the nonce. If my wallet were empty, what would you do, comrades? You might take my soft felt headgear and you might find it full of carolus, in the crown as well as round the brim.”