Seventeenth century

When he’s super cute, but you get close and he has that stank breath.

When he's super cute, but you get close and he has that stank breath.
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From
Francis Quarles, Emblemes
Printed
London: G. Miller, sold by John Marriot, 1635
Image from
Early English Books Online (STC 20540)

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 14 July 2016: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth Emblemes (London: G. Miller, sold by John Marriot, 1635), the work of Francis Quarles and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. The image is from Early English Books Online (STC 20540). Copied into this book the fourteenth day of July, 2016. Finis.

Cite the original
Quarles, Francis.
Emblemes.
London: G. Miller, sold by John Marriot, 1635.
Early English Books Online (STC 20540).

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