The instructions of King Cormac Mac Airt: Tecosca Cormaic (Author: Unknown)
paragraph 18
‘O grandson of Conn, Cormac,’ said Carpre, ‘what is the worst housekeeping?’ ‘Not hard to tell. A housekeeping by which neither honour nor
life is bought. There is another housekeeping which is worse: ‘Get, fetch, take, bring!’’