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Today’s puzzle pictured above for the Paleographical Challenge. Suggested solution to yesterday’s challenge shown below:
5 to bow. v.a.
To incline; to dispose
She yt shd all parts to reunion bow
She yt had all magnetic force alone
To draw & fasten sundred parts in one
Donne
One of many notes by Samuel Johnson and his amanuenses towards a later edition, bound into a copy of the first edition of A Dictionary of the English Language (1755). Gen MSS Vol 728, vol. 1 (formerly MS Vault Johnson), shown here opened to the note for “To bow.”