Thomas Fella
Winter
- an illustration of a pig butchering
- from: A Booke of Diveirs Devices
by Thomas Fella - (c. 1620)
- Folger Shakespeare Library
- 450 x 620 (100 KB)
Editor’s Note:
The rhyme in upper left of the image deciphered:
When carefull man hath carked [cared] all the
yeare
And sees how god hath prospered his encreasse [increase]
He killes his swyne And minds to make good cheare
To passe the tyme while winters Rage doth ceasse.