Until his final martyred breath, Saint Sebastian mocked the archers for their poor aim.

Until his final martyred breath, Saint Sebastian mocked the archers for their poor aim.
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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 5 February 2014: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth Until his final martyred breath, Saint Sebastian mocked the archers…, the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. Copied into this book the fifth day of February, 2014. Finis.

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