False Friends by ShapiroA

Question 11

Bibit pauper et aegrotus,
bibit exul et ignotus,
bibit puer, bibit canus,
bibit praesul et decanus,
bibit soror, bibit frater,
bibit anus, bibit mater,
bibit ista, bibit ille,
bibunt centum, bibunt mille.

This is a stanza from a drinking song, part of the text of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. "Bibit X" means "X drinks" (so: the poor man drinks, the sick man drinks, the exile and the unknown drink...). Identify, in English, the 11th drinker out of the 16 mentioned here.

OLD WOMAN

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