Im Badehaus [English translation]

Neatness do i loathe

But I go to the bathhouse

To rest in the bath

I now must hurry from here

Pick my beard voluptously

I shall cool my body

Pleasures of a special kind

One can only feel in the water

Upon arrival at the thermal baths

My waistcoat they take (at the wardrobe)

And endearing Sugar-Playthings

Cut the nails right from my finger

Another one, neat and clean

She cuts both my beard and hair

And makes her forget

All these many years of famine

A fatso, shrouded in his tallow

Is kneading my buttocks

They pepper me with powder

and put me into the washtub

Hot water they now pour

And my skin turns red as a hummer

"Ouch" I scream and pain and woe

I'm being boiled like a toad

If all this has goen through

The body is almost undone

But now follows a joyful part

Thereof I shall tell with pleasure

They bring ham, brawn and bacon

Wine and beer, and liquors too

Bread and cake and pastry

But not to my credit

No, all has to be paid for

Ham, Brawn, beer and wine

And him who almost broke your bones

And afterwards boiled you like ham

All of them you have to pay

Even the kindness of the servant-girls

How dear it is, this ordeal of bathing

And Neatness, oh how burdensome

• Artist:Ougenweide