Today’s puzzle pictured above for the Paleographical Challenge. Suggested solution to yesterday’s challenge below:
as pigeons bill so wedlock
wd be nibbling Shak.
From the notes by Samuel Johnson and his amanuenses towards a later edition, in an interleaved and annotated copy of A Dictionary of the English Language (1755). Gen MSS Vol 728 (formerly MS Vault Johnson), vol. 1, “BIL.“