Thomas Love Peacock

“ The hall of Melvas was full of magnanimous heroes, who were celebrating their own exploits in sundry chorusses, especially in that which follows, which is here put upon record as being the quintessence of all the war-songs that ever were written, and the sum and substance of all the appetencies, tendencies, and consequences of military glory:
"The War-Song of Dinas Vawr"
The mountain sheep are sweeter,
But the valley sheep are fatter ”