Garboils

 Rather sinister looking character, don't you think? Found him on the back cover of Alice Hogge's book God's Secret Agents. It's a detail from a painting in the Palazzo Pitti collection. 

 

Also, I found a couple of interesting words during yesterday's reading, traduce and garboils.  The former was one I was at least somewhat familiar with. One of those rarely used SAT words, I think. The latter, though, was one I'd never heard of before. Here's I found it used in Hogge's book:

 

"Robert Persons, for whom the greatest contempt was reserved, was described as 'the principal author . . . of all garboils at home'."