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There's usually only two stooges in the scene with the eye poke gag.
Didactic miscellany. Kk.4.25, f. 48r
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Some marginalia do not need a caption save it's "A chicken riding a goat and jousting with a flower."
LIke many of the marginalia I find, the poster did not cite the manuscript.
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A BIRD-woman feeding a BIRD leg to a BIRD.
Cannibalism to the nth degree.
Cloisters Apocalypse, f. 22v
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