“Pleasant, liquors of the mead-brewer to the multitude;
Also pleasant, a songster generous, amiable.
Pleasant, the open field to cuckoos and the nightingale;
Also pleasant when the weather is serene.”

— Taliesin

Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Pleasant Things of Taliesin

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