“Though I am young, I scorn to flit
On the wings of borrowed wit.”
George Wither (1588–1667) English poet
The Shepherd’s Hunting (printed 1615); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“I am old. I am young. I am Gwion,
I am universal, I am possessed of penetrating wit.”
— Taliesin
A tradition about Taliesin states that he was once a boy named "Gwion".
Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The First Address of Taliesin
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