“T is merry in hall
Where beards wag all.”

— Thomas Tusser

"August's Abstract". Compare: "Merry swithe it is in halle, When the beards waveth alle", Life of Alexander, 1312; (author unknown, but earlier wrongly attributed to Adam Davie, who had elsewhere written "Swithe mury hit is in halle, When burdes waiven alle").
A Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (1557)

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