"I'd love to help you with your dragon problem, miss, but I owe Randall the next round."

"I'd love to help you with your dragon problem, miss, but I owe Randall the next round."
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Early English Books Online (STC 7260)

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 20 January 2016: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth “I’d love to help you with your dragon problem, miss, but I owe…, 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 7260). Copied into this book the twentieth day of January, 2016. Finis.

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““I’d love to help you with your dragon problem, miss, but I owe….”
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