I too run away if someone tells me I have to remove my cape for love-making.

I too run away if someone tells me I have to remove my cape for love-making.
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First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 3 June 2015: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth I too run away if someone tells me I have to remove my cape for…, 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 2099.2). Copied into this book the third day of June, 2015. Finis.

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