“A pleasant virtue, extreme penance to an extreme course;
Also pleasant, when God is delivering me.”

—  Taliesin

Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Pleasant Things of Taliesin
Context: A pleasant virtue, extreme penance to an extreme course;
Also pleasant, when God is delivering me.
Pleasant, the carousal that hinders not mental exertion;
Also pleasant, to drink together about horns.

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