His medicine best when he was ill.
Always his hall was full, and there
His guests had ever best of fare.
Whate’er the bishop lacked or lost,
Was bought at once, despite the cost.
And so, in spite of vent and score,
The bishop’s debts grew more and more.
For true it is—this ne’er forget—
Who spends too much gets into debt.
One day his friends all with him sat,