Come on, Robert Fludd's engraver. Were the penis and balls absolutely necessary?

Come on, Robert Fludd's engraver. Were the penis and balls absolutely necessary?
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Source: The internet is a place of theft. And I was a notorious thief here. Shame on me, but I will make amends if I ever have EEBO access again. But life out here is hard for the unaffiliated academic.

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 31 October 2013: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth Come on, Robert Fludd’s engraver. Were the penis and balls absolutely…, the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. Copied into this book the thirty-firſt day of October, 2013. Finis.

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