“ʹTis merry in hall when beards wag all”—i.e. when feasting goes on.
“Then was the minstrel’s harp with rapture heard;
The song of ancient days gave huge delight;
With pleasure too did wag the minstrel’s beard,
For Plenty courted him to drink and bite.”
Peter Pindar: Elegy to Scotland.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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