When you’re storming the castle, but you only have one horse.

When you're storming the castle, but you only have one horse.
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First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 18 November 2015: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth When you’re storming the castle, but you only have one horse., 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 1101.5). Copied into this book the eighteenth day of November, 2015. Finis.

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“When you’re storming the castle, but you only have one horse.”
Early English Books Online (STC 1101.5).

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