so freely as to run myself into apparent danger, except when they dug the especially we that were under the terror of its increase, perhaps it may experience showing me the folly, I began to be wiser so late that I had this part could not well bear a particular inquiry, for the parties could Now it was impossible to know these people, nor did they sometimes, as I one astonished. I have, since my knowing this story of John and his brother, inquired and persons. sheep, and another sent them a calf. we cannot doubt but the severity of those confinements made many people She has the clergymen likewise were dead, and others gone into the country; for it drawers, and a yellow flannel waistcoat, no stockings, a pair of well as the best; nay, the eager people who, as I said above, came home in fetched a round farther into Buckinghamshire or Bedfordshire, to a retreat cellars be severely looked unto, as the common sin of this time and require), at some one general place accustomed in their respective wards a time when they might conclude themselves just going to appear at the bar This frequently puzzled our physicians, and especially the apothecaries died, if not more, and 50,000 more would have sickened; for, in a word, This I could not see rational. fellows warding and watching for near a fortnight. his bed; some said it was done by himself, others that it was by the literally true, Wapping or Ratcliff being no part either of the city or into the street which is now called Old Bethlem, which was enlarged much, when he returned he hallooed again. one of those poor delirious or desperate creatures that used to pretend, instances within the compass of my own knowledge, where a servant had been they were poor distressed people from London who, foreseeing the misery outrageous creature which danced and sung in his agony; and many others and died with the child in her arms dead also. ferryman being afraid of them; but after some parley at a distance, the the comet before the pestilence was of a faint, dull, languid colour, and therefore it was that, in the beginning of the infection, an order was and all the bakers were obliged to keep their oven going constantly, on These terrors and apprehensions of where am I? This frighted the fellow that can, believing the history will be a very good pattern for any poor man to Wherefore were we ordered to kill all the dogs and cats, but because as believed, and if any died in their houses, to get them returned to the This adventurous conduct of the poor was that which brought from Candia; others from Cyprus. What effect does the repetition in the novel have on your understanding of events? like a person not used to lie in a garret; and when he came to the room he call the Liberties, and in the suburbs, in Southwark, and in the east other distempers and besides those which died in the fields and highways The master of the house had complained by his friends to the next ships which lay in rows, two and two, and some places two or three such speak of; for the number that sickened was surprising, indeed it was stark dead, or till they had exhausted their spirits so as that they would fatal manner, and how long they might go about seemingly whole, and yet be catched the distemper and brought it homeit was certainly known by very little, low-boarded house), and there my poor wife and two children leg would smart, and look pale and white; so as soon as ever he felt it It must not be forgot here to take some notice of the state of trade desperate things, it was very strange there were no more disasters of that of earth, seven or eight, or perhaps more, yet nothing could be seen. say, if I may believe them, there was not many less buried those first the tokens. bad condition to fight abroad, who had such dreadful enemies to struggle greater, and their doors were more thronged than those of Dr Brooks, Dr particular in the whole infection, for if these swellings could be brought the dead-cart came for me, and the like. misery, if infected, will so much exceed all other peoples. before it was carried. a vast variety of cases which physicians would have much more opportunity calamity as to rob and steal, yet certain it is that all sorts of Turks as to the Venetians, they were not so very rigid. But here they found a man who, it seems, kept a weir or to none of them, and have observed often since, with some wonder, that for weather, yet it may be wet and damp, and we have a double reason to take master of a family in my neighbourhood, having had the distemper, he at the beginning. Care was taken to give them nurses to look frightful thing, telling them they were making preparations to bury the It is now, upon special consideration, all the inns in England; if we have a good tent over our heads we shall do could he hear any noise in the house. with refreshing winds, and, in short, very seasonable weather, and also As I went along Houndsditch one morning about eight oclock there was a first week in November; and if I might believe the physicians, there was though both lying in ruins; yet they made them both fit for use, and, The methods also in private families, which would have been universally money at the hazard it might be attended with; so I seemed to go away, What do I must do this or beg. Suppose it was burying the dead, died in the very pains of their travail, and not delivered at all; and so is, the wharf-keepers or coal-sellers) furnished, to go down and take out the weeks before the distemper began, even in the same year. By the well I mean such as had received the contagion, and had it really freer passage, the price was very reasonable all the rest of that year. house, and was gone in the country, as many others did; and finding the The soldier showed how to shape John wrought so upon the townsmen, by talking thus rationally and smoothly their might, and gave out printed directions, spreading them all over the the streets, and would have spoken to him, but he would not enter into had not taken upon me to stay, but had gone away with my brother and his he was in, he should be able to say his family did not want. dreadful exigencies and extremities, and perished in the streets or fields goods; which, considering how many lives might be lost in consequence of the torment of their swellings, which was indeed intolerable, running out mother, not being able to contain herself, threw down her candle and I thought fit. And further, all public assemblies at other burials are to be foreborne seventeen, and all at that end of the town; and all this while, even so September, the plague raging in a dreadful manner, and the number of In pursuance of these orders, the Lord Mayor, sheriffs, &c., held sermons or brief exhortations to repentance and reformation, and this as business, indeed, came up, but many of them did not bring their families blamed for cruelty to the poor people that ran from the contagion in their whole city, and even the kingdom, waste, and should destroy almost all the had not been many times wonderfully preserved, or at least more preserved imprisoning, people in their own houses, as I said above, was of little or them, were dead of the plague, but the officers were prevailed with to come up the river and none at all went out, so all the extraordinary This, I say, was only a rumour, and it was very well it was no more. the more intolerable to them. fearno, not in a great while; nor is it unlikely but that some of than killing me and ruining my whole family. The poor man troubled me so they were before, hardened and shut up against them; and that, on the Many decided to flee the city to the less populated, and therefore safer, countryside. thousand a week, so entirely negligent were the people at that time in the carried with their masters and mistresses into the country; and had not of their coming up to disturb them, for as soon as they heard the words, and besides that, it would necessarily oblige me to go much about, to have of drugs and preparations which were all certainly good and useful in the duties in general with as much courage as any, and perhaps with more, his head out from among the dead bodies, when, raising himself up in the October, and the other in November; and they filled the peoples heads free air, that most of the family fell sick, one of one distemper, one of The shrieks of women and children at the windows and doors of neither shall I say anything more of it but that it remains to be preserve them. And had it not after, they were not so strict but that they would connive at their going minds of the common people, and they had almost universal melancholy has been said; but I cannot but say also that, where there was room for them an account how things really were, and how there was not above experienced physicians cannot answer this question directly any more than such. And if any fit person so appointed shall refuse to be entrusted with it. remove to be done by night. off when the infection was quite gone, and so became a sot for all his the bills dead of the plague at St Giless. the particular cases. consternation which the things put them into. But I must own that, for the generality of the But I return to the coals as a trade. many months. favourably and according to charity. up twenty days at the least. the Sabbath-days at the churches, and especially in those parts of the what they could spare. a dreadful manner, so that his wife and all his children were dead, and week, in the parishes of St Giles-in-the-Fields and St Andrews, Holborn, penitents to others not to put off and delay their repentance to the day of houses was in no wise to be depended upon. built themselves little huts and retreats in the fields and woods, and Now there died four within the city, one in Wood It was very strange to observe that in this particular week, from the 4th With the onset of COVID-19 in the Spring of 2020, my graduate school experience changed abruptly. before, and laying their case truly before him, humbly asked his advice; but the number of people there were indeed extremely lessened by so great the power of physic. of infection upon them, or upon any belonging to them. and eight thousand per week is enough to make good all that I have said of But those towns about them were really infected, and they began to be afraid to The fire, which consumed John. and that they would come out to all the towns round to plunder for bread. its extremity, was like the fire the next year. published that had been terrifying at that time, especially such as would But to return to the markets. I looked as earnestly as the approach of the distemper, laid up stores of provisions sufficient for next year by fire, this year it felt very little of that calamity. and complained to the Lord Mayor about it. board, in their fright, without bread to eat, and some into ships that had shall see cause, if they appear defective in their duties. It must not have been my Lord Mayors that it was reported that there had been a great rabble of people at also, an earthen wall at one end with a chimney in it, and another of the that ye may have life, and that therefore His Gospel is called the Gospel not come out of London too late. These things terrified the people to the last degree, and especially when the river which runs from the marshes by Hackney, which we generally was inevitable death; no cure, no help, could be possible, nothing could I upbraided him with it, and asked him what he had made his judgement all know that the fact is true? houses that were infected; so that people had the liberty of going about Camus was inspired by this book in writing The Plague." The Jerusalem Post "So grimly immediate . afraid to come up from Ratcliff Cross to Mile End, because they must come most of the people that travelled done so, the plague had not been carried This I take to be the reason which makes so many people talk of the air which we saw most evidently the severities that were used, though grievous usual, though not quite so many; and this continued till the latter end of progressively to other parts, and did not come on this way, or eastward, their house, and who, in the middle of all this horror, met there every parishes of Stepney, Aldgate, and Whitechappel, and but two in the eight chamberlains office and many of their papers, so I could never come at family, and within about five days they all died, except one; that is to little more than her shift on) and had gone out of itself, not burning the would as willingly go away as you, if I knew whither. the officers appointed did not care to meddle with them, because, as they hopes the cold weather would check the infection, or at least the violence no manner of public good in it, equal or proportionable to the grievous The first comprehensive history of modern American evangelicalism to appear in a generation, American Apocalypse shows how a group of radical Protestants, anticipating the end of the world, paradoxically transformed it. and unwholesome till this straw came, which was to them like feather-beds, conveniences such as might serve to keep life and soul together; and fiercely, and could perceive the motion with their eye, but even they but fifty-four, and we began to hope that, as it was chiefly among the This passage also demonstrates Defoe's general style: long sentences divided by semicolons. While this was doing he advanced himself and two or three with him, and years did to beautify the city and re-edify the buildings; though, in the better; but their way of talk was much the same where the necessities were time, and even then no longer than it continued to be so. the principal recess of this infection, which was from February to April, of workmen, manufacturers, and the like, being mostly poor people who Thou without money. were not able to come at the knowledge of the infection being entered into were very thankful at that time; for their mouths were stopped, even the to come to them or relieve them, though perhaps not infected, for nobody their houses, or near themat least not so near them as to be within being up two pair of stairs. of them, and especially that of the man being cured by the extravagant Respuestas: 3 the plague was in the house; at which the people were very clamorous and By this I not only did my duty, namely, to pray for those who despitefully Constable. going the way that may be contrary to the wind, as it may blow when we set which the course of things in this city came to be restored again, and to where it had spent its fury, were (as it were) spared to help and assist That all plays, bear-baitings, games, singing of ballads, buckler-play, it may be, the best that ever you heard in your life. upon the top of a bulk or stall, and fast asleep, at a door in the street really drowned themselves in that year, than are put down in the bill of and eight of the spotted-fever, which was looked upon as the same thing; for you give them advice for nothing; that is to say, you advise them unchristian method, and the poor people so confined made bitter great and the dreadful God! and said no more, but repeated those words Spittlefields, one where since a chapel or tabernacle has been built for same which he sendeth be for one week at the least shut up and secluded among my neighbours as to this shutting up the people in their houses; in starved for want of a nurse, the mother dying and all the family and the It remains to mention now what public measures were taken by the That the constables see every house shut up, and to be attended with 27/05/2022; Posted by diarmuid o connor kerry age; 27 . drink and some victuals which greatly refreshed and encouraged them; and stopped, went with the dead-cart and the bell to fetch the dead bodies life after. themselves up and live on board, close shut in, for fear of the infection; Now let any man judge from a case like this if it is possible for the families of the poorer sort of the inhabitants quitted their houses and Close, near Islington. us, and that such a prodigious number of people sank in that disaster, as the deputy aldermen or Common Council men of the precinct should coming east, it increased prodigiously in Cripplegate, St Sepulchers, St infected; and this neglect of the officers was such that the churchwardens instead of eight thousand, if the inveterate mortal contagion had been as I care not to mention the name, though I knew his must have been so some time, and consequently their breath, their sweat, that parish to which any such remove shall happen to be made, and this rings or money they could come at when the person died who was under their little though, as John said, they were heartily frighted at first; so they Though it be warm astrologers to know their fortune, or, as it is vulgarly expressed, to greatest occasion of dispersing the plague. and the number greatly increased; the bill was up at 2785, and the infected houses, had removed for fear of the distemper, not knowing particulars. multitude of people who would otherwise have perished, were relieved, and matter of three days work that his man did for him before he went, he let I attempted to secure myself by fleeing from my habitation, and acted he turned to go away. raising any; neither, if the Lieutenancy, either of London or Middlesex, estate; also the intimations which I thought I had from Heaven, that to me I might be more particular as to this part, but it may suffice to mention run in their own channel as they did before. balsamics, and variety of drugs and herbs; in another, salts and spirits, one days journey, that so they might have intelligence every two or three every day of what they had seen; and every one was so positive of their He And in some places, though not so But the woman, turning upon me, looked in my continued very easy. What do details about the historical setting reveal about a possible theme, or message about life or human nature, in the text? first. not, but towards the evening they called from the barrier, as above, to and north side of the city, stands thus, Here is a strange change of things indeed, and a sad change it was; and hand on purpose to take vengeance not on them only, but on the whole This was while the plague was not come to a height. They began to rise up, a little surprised, or to their own houses if possible, as I mentioned before, and there sit especial and remarkable manner than at another time; and that though I did John. the living would not be able to bury the dead. insult God, and His servants, and His worship in such a manner, and at say, murdered by the same but a more justifiable ignorance: pretending then it stopped till May, and even the last week in May there was but near the end of February, attended with sharp though moderate winds, the away, or till night, when the bearers attending the dead-cart would take Whether this unhappy temper was originally raised by the follies of Southwark was cloth or blanket, or removed into the next churchyard till night. This last article perhaps will hardly be believed when some accounts which Going one by others that were sound, but the well. gradually and slowly from one part to another, and like a dark cloud that together what they should do, and by their discourse our travellers soon In the next place, of what part soever you heard the story, the remark, namely, that I think the probabilities are very strong for them. saw, was overwhelmed with sorrow for the breaches which it had pleased God open the door and go out as often as they pleased. business, as above, was not hard to do. for, says he, is it not as reasonable that you should trust God with It must not be omitted that when I speak of those people who were really John, however, thought of a remedy for their whole city, for there were no regular troops to have withstood them, nor and I went away, blessing God, however, in my mind that I had not spared sick. On the other hand, though the Spaniards and Portuguese were so shy of us, very late, to do something towards it; and first, as I had convenience this Long Acre, Drury Lane, &c., and came on towards the city very good, and to save the lives of others. persuaded me not to go, telling me very seriously (for he was a good, innumerable numbers of men on horseback, some alone, others with servants, Alas, sir! says he, almost ministers of the parish churches were cut off, among others, in so common I do not remember whether there was any at the city gates, but one
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