Andre had resigned himself to the fire, but he thought the basting exceptionally cruel.

Andre had resigned himself to the fire, but he thought the basting exceptionally cruel.
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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 22 May 2013: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth Andre had resigned himself to the fire, but he thought the basting…, the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. Copied into this book the twenty-ſecond day of May, 2013. Finis.

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