“It is a fit time to go to the drinking,
With the skilful men, about art,
And a hundred knots, the custom of the country,
The shepherd of the districts, support of gates,
Like going without a foot to battle.”

—  Taliesin

Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Fold of the Bards

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