Patten’s lawyer is not the full strength and fervor of the dodger and the scoundrel, as everyone around him knew. He grew old, became sick and weak and feels the approach of the end. When he was young, he easily earned money, now his strength is running out and he is of no use to anyone. He still holds the position of lawyer in court, but now his clients are poor, so his affairs go unimportantly. Together with his wife Guillemetta, he lives his own life in poverty and oblivion. One consolation remained in his life – wine.
He is going to go to court, but feels so bad that he has to go to bed. Deciding that his hour of death has come, Pat-lin sends Guillemetta for an apothecary and priest. Soon both are to a lawyer: one to try to bring him back to life, the other – to prepare him for the upcoming meeting with the Almighty. The chemist persuades Patlen to take powders and medicines, but he refuses all his potions and demands wine. The priest is ready to receive
the confession of the dying person, but he does not want to hear about the remission of sins and wants only wine. Guilemetta begs her husband to think about saving the soul, but he does not listen to her pleas, the priest asks the stubborn to remember all the sins that he committed in his entire life. Finally, he agrees to tell the holy father of his artful tricks. He boasts that he once pouted a greedy clothie, taking from him six cubits of the best cloth and not paying any copper. However, he refuses to talk about how the servant of the cloth-giver rounded his finger after he saved the thief from the trial. Seeing that the death of Patlen is already close, the priest lets him sins. Now it’s time to make a will by all the rules. But Patlen has nothing, and he bequeaths his wife an empty casket without a single coin, and to the confessor – the charms of Guillietta. Saying goodbye to the world in which it was most important for him to eat, drink and swear, Patlen decides to bury himself in a wine cellar, under a wine barrel, and emits a spirit. the priest lets him sins. Now it’s time to make a will by all
the rules. But Patlen has nothing, and he bequeaths his wife an empty casket without a single coin, and to the confessor – the charms of Guillietta. Saying goodbye to the world in which it was most important for him to eat, drink and swear, Patlen decides to bury himself in a wine cellar, under a wine barrel, and emits a spirit. the priest lets him sins. Now it’s time to make a will by all the rules. But Patlen has nothing, and he bequeaths his wife an empty casket without a single coin, and to the confessor – the charms of Guillietta. Saying goodbye to the world in which it was most important for him to eat, drink and swear, Patlen decides to bury himself in a wine cellar, under a wine barrel, and emits a spirit.
