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pallas_athena ([personal profile] pallas_athena) wrote2009-03-02 07:31 pm
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Food for worms

The causes of worms, from R. Clark'sVermiculars Destroyed, 1690.

Via the hit-and-miss but occasionally brilliant LOLManuscripts, also remarkable for this post on the long S.

Lastly, did you know that the Ashmolean Museum has a dinner plate from the mid-1500s with a guy saying "Every man looks at me as though I were a head of cocks"? [Completely worksafe. Use your own judgement about eating off him, though.]