Oh, sorry. I've been keeping track of medieval and early modern "not a" animals. I started with #NotALion:

Oh, sorry. I've been keeping track of medieval and early modern "not a" animals. I started with #NotALion:
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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 as a #NotALion on 25 March 2015: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth Oh, sorry. I’ve been keeping track of medieval and early modern “not…, the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. Copied into this book the twenty-fifth day of March, 2015. Finis.

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