Had to do it.

Had to do it.
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Early English Books Online (STC 20923)

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 21 May 2020: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth Had to do it., 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 twenty-firſt day of May, 2020. Finis.

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