History of the Plague in London by Daniel Defoe
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A B R A C A D A A B R A C A D A B R A C A A B R A C A B R A A B R A B A Others had the Jesuits' mark in a cross:-- I H S[73] Others had nothing but this mark; thus,-- + I might spend a great deal of my time in exclamations against the follies, and indeed the wickednesses of those things, in a time of such danger, in a matter of such consequence as this of a national infection; but my memorandums of these things relate rather to take notice of the fact, and mention only that it was so. How the poor people found the insufficiency of those things, and how many of them were afterwards carried away in the dead carts, and thrown into the common graves of every parish with these hellish charms and trumpery hanging about their necks, remains to be spoken of as we go along. All this was the effect of the hurry the people were in, after the first |
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