Brewer's: Wag Beards

(To). “'Tis 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.

PeterPindar: Elegy to Scotland.

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