"I want a battle scene in the woods, but the trees get in the way." -"Try really small trees."

"I want a battle scene in the woods, but the trees get in the way." -"Try really small trees."
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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 13 January 2016: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth “I want a battle scene in the woods, but the trees get in the way.”…, the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. Copied into this book the thirteenth day of January, 2016. Finis.

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