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The instructions of King Cormac Mac Airt: Tecosca Cormaic (Author: Unknown)

paragraph 26

‘O grandson of Conn, Cormac,’ said Carpre, ‘what is the worst pleading?’ ‘Not hard to tell,’ said Cormac.

1. A pleading without instruction, without knowledge,
   violence in discussion,
   5] discussion without reason,
   a pleading without choice, without restraint, without grasp, without practice.