Seventeenth century

"This is the last time I use a turtle as the instrument of my wrath," thought God.

"This is the last time I use a turtle as the instrument of my wrath," thought God.
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From
Henry Peacham, Minerua Britanna or A garden of heroical deuises furnished, and adorned with…
Printed
1612
Image from
Early English Books Online (STC 19511)

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 4 May 2016: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth Minerua Britanna or A garden of heroical deuises furnished, and adorned with… (1612), the work of Henry Peacham and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. The image is from Early English Books Online (STC 19511). Copied into this book the fourth day of May, 2016. Finis.

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Peacham, Henry.
Minerua Britanna or A garden of heroical deuises furnished, and adorned with….
1612.
Early English Books Online (STC 19511).

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