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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...that wondrous witty ilratagem Which for a while was practifed by them To ftarve the Plague; how Chriftianly they fought That no provifions hither might be brought; Should we produce their Orders, which of late Were put in ure, and wife men laughed at: Or, publifh to the world what we have heard Of their demeanors, when they were afeard.-How they were fool'd by fome of them that fled: What courfe was taken to interre their dead: How, he who for that worke could hired be, Was for his labour, chained to a tree A A full month after: how, they forced fome From their fweet wholfome houfes forth to come; And (being fick and weake) to make their bed Within a paltry new erected Shed, Compos'd of clods; which neere fome Common fide Their charitable Worfhips did provide: Or, mould I on fome other matters touch Which I have heard; it would enlarge too much This booke: and fome of thofe, perhaps, perplex, Whom I defire to counfell, not to vex. But, I from aggravations will forbeare, And, thofe their overfights, at this time, fpare. For, fome (although moft others did not fo) Their love and Chriftian piety did fhow, In counfelling, in cherifhing, in giving, And, in the wifeft manner of releeving. Befide; I love the Country, as I pitie The forrowes and afflictions of the Citie. And (fince they both are guilty) being loth To fide with either; I the faults of both Have fhewed, fo, that neither I abufe. Now, they that like it may; the refl may chufe. The third Canto. The Houfe of MOVRNING, which moflfeare, (And flye fo much) is praifed here. It fhowes that outward Ioyes and Care, Nor meerly good, nor evill, are; But things indiff'rent; which the wife Nor over-praife, nor under-prize. The flrife within our Authors brefl About his May, is next exprefl. Then doth it orderly rec...

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