Shady Samwell lurked in cartouches, waiting to offer unsuspecting readers his fruit.

Shady Samwell lurked in cartouches, waiting to offer unsuspecting readers his fruit.
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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 15 August 2013: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth Shady Samwell lurked in cartouches, waiting to offer unsuspecting…, the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. Copied into this book the fifteenth day of Auguſt, 2013. Finis.

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