Sean might not have been the best shepherd, but he knew a sheep molester when he saw one.

Sean might not have been the best shepherd, but he knew a sheep molester when he saw one.
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Early English Books Online (STC 177)

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 14 January 2015: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth Sean might not have been the best shepherd, but he knew a sheep…, the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. The image is from Early English Books Online (STC 177). Copied into this book the fourteenth day of January, 2015. Finis.

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“Sean might not have been the best shepherd, but he knew a sheep….”
Early English Books Online (STC 177).

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