"How big are horses?" -"About the size of castles." "How big are people?" -"The size of horses."

"How big are horses?" -"About the size of castles." "How big are people?" -"The size of horses."
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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 17 February 2016: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth “How big are horses?” -“About the size of castles.” “How big are…, the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. Copied into this book the ſeventeenth day of February, 2016. Finis.

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