Print of a Landsknecht circa 1573 by Jost Amman

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A very, very rough Google translation:
"I am qualified to be a leader, I know the path and the bridge well, I am chosen by the common man, I go at the front of the train, I have decided and know my right to be called, wherever I should lead the servants, whether in the land of friends, or from or against the enemy, I always lead my little servant after the notice of the visiting people.

I also usually go to court/ When a maleficence is forgiven/ To justify the crime before it is committed/ I also draw lots in every town/ In markets/ Villages/ or villages/ Write a letter to the house In which the gang leaders explain how everyone is to dress properly/ Enter with their gang/ We rightly waive this/"

Prints like these are not actually all that hard to come by. With the advent of the printing press, productions like this could be churned out in great numbers. The books are harder to come by as people pilfered the pages for the pretty pictures over the years. Yet those same pretty pictures meant that people found them worth keeping around for the art, and the quantity of them produced left a tidy sum floating around to this day.

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