When the party is in your honor, but you're such an extreme introvert that you just want to go home and read. #NotALion The most delectable history of Reynard the Fox. Printed by Edward Allde. London. 1620.

When the party is in your honor, but you're such an extreme introvert that you just want to go home and read. #NotALion The most delectable history of Reynard the Fox. Printed by Edward Allde. London. 1620.
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First posted on Twitter as a #NotALion on 16 December 2017: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth When the party is in your honor, but you’re such an extreme introvert…, 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 20923). Copied into this book the ſixteenth day of December, 2017. Finis.

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