Try as she might, Mary was unable to soften her executioners with her appeal to the "West side."

Try as she might, Mary was unable to soften her executioners with her appeal to the "West side."
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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 19 November 2014: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth Try as she might, Mary was unable to soften her executioners with her…, the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. Copied into this book the nineteenth day of November, 2014. Finis.

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