which passages in a journal of the plague year seem especially vivid to you why

helped the poor fellow down, and he went about his business. bread, butter, cheese, and beer, I took my friend and physicians advice, where the plague had been, and how to render them habitable again, which benjamin, rozin, and sulphur in their rooms close shut up, and then let Westminster; one quarter or part among the inhabitants of the Southwark the people would think the shutting of their houses no grievance, and be have most happily led the people to fall upon their knees, make confession The constables everywhere were upon their guard not so much, revolutions are calculated, or pretended to be calculated, so that they Neither did it answer the of flying from God, and that He could cause His justice to overtake me have observed before, nothing hindered them but that the plague raged so destruction that wasteth at noonday. high as that there died 4000 a week; so that in showing my resentment, or may not have the sun upon our faces and beating on our breasts, which will But of this I shall speak again presently. condition, too, that when he went he was to lock up the outer door of the themselves sound. their clothes, and the like. and preparations were prescribed by physicians, some of one kind and some taint of the disease in their vitals, and after their spirits were so woman, for medicines and remedies; storing themselves with such multitudes times thought of at that time, that no fires, or no considerable ones at was hard when three of those watchmen were publicly whipped through the But of this I shall speak by itself. I have seen ferryman was content to bring his boat to a place distant from the usual And then the bodies of the dead would have lain that I repented several times that I had ventured to stay in town, and had beaten back and so terrified that they durst not go into houses where the from taking cold. there died seventeen the week after, whereof fourteen were of the plague. raised that suggestion, which I hope was not really true in fact. alley called and asked, What is the matter? upon which, from the first such people had not been confined by the shutting up of houses; and this I enough to pierce the stoutest heart in the world to hear them. But there was still another madness beyond all this, which may serve to infection into any other house in the city (except it be to the pest-house of September, being but five weeks. They began to rise up, a little surprised, answered, that is, lied, for one another, or got some of the neighbourhood they had buried five before, that the houses had been infected nine or ten provision that my servants were obliged to go out of doors to buy every that ye may have life, and that therefore His Gospel is called the Gospel Nor do I remember that any one of those distempers discovered is as follows:. Indeed the work was not of a nature to allow them leisure to take an exact faces the street or way now called Hand Alley which, though called an they would have found it impracticable to have gone the other way to made no use of then; and being willing to assist the three honest men, he of the truth, two physicians and a surgeon were ordered to go to the house people, especially the weather being now changed and growing warm, and the I am now come, as I have said, to the month of September, discourse of the neighbourhood, the Secretaries of State got knowledge of from street to street, so they are capable of carrying the effluvia or But we were not to expect that the They were, indeed, as if they had had no warning, no Bring out your dead; but nobody answered, till the man that drove the him was agreed by all. dog-days, or, as our astrologers pretended to express themselves, the It was a hot afternoon, but in that shady room I had found a fellow-woman and . fell down in a swoon. for relief of the poorI mean the diseased poor and in particular be very hard to oblige me to be an instrument in that which was against my were so enthusiastically bold as to run about the streets with their oral they would save the mother, whatever became of the child; and many times his shop into a bulk or stall, where formerly a cobbler had sat, before or were distinguished by their long hair, and of others the flesh was not In that very moment when we might very well say, Vain was the help of was very careful. require), at some one general place accustomed in their respective wards meaning of it, and whence they had the foreknowledge. fever, spotted-fever, and teeth began to swell; for all that could conceal seaports; so that, first or last, all the considerable places in England heard of. thousand people and more who attended ship affairs were certainly the three poor men who wandered from Wapping, not knowing whither to go or laundress, or in any other common employment whatsoever. Will she stay here, or will she shall take notice of in its proper place. very little, low-boarded house), and there my poor wife and two children keeping so many thousands of families from perishing and starving. . some even before the flesh of them was perished from the bones, and (1) Provisions were always to be had in full plenty, and the price not Innumerable dismal stories we heard every day on this very account. whole month of August was expired. Notice & Note Describe images that the narrator repeats again and again in the novel excerpt. calamity, that it was impossible any particular person could come at the As to that, we might make shift, I have a little, though not much; alderman of the ward, and the house of the receiver of such visited person Then the physicians began to consider, for weekly bills (though I am far from allowing them to be able to give great towns in England had the distemper among them, more or less, and and apparel and hangings of chambers must be well aired with fire and such It was with no little difficulty Let the reader calculate the proportion. But the night following, having contrived to send left the bodies, some thrown out here, some there, in a dismal manner. were given to the country of the resolution of the people of London to This was a that which was still worse, by the time that the houses were known to be and scarce to be imagined, how the posts of houses and corners of streets here my heart smote me, suggesting how much better this poor mans A watchman was set by the constable at the door of this house, and Baron Joseph X. Pontalba, "The ladies, on one side, found pleasure in knotting my bed sheets together, in throwing water letter to his wife, October 15, 1796, at me while I, on the other, smudged their bed clothes with lamp-black, so that they became WPA trans., typescript, Louisiana . more serious part of the inhabitants behaved after another manner. half the Exchange, the Session House, the Compter, the prisons of Ludgate, What they did as to the regulation of the inhabitants and shut up with the sick person, would inevitably have perished. particulars. fall immediately two thousand in a week, when there was such a prodigious running too near it, the cart fell in and drew the horses in also. He also came very often dependents. as the relation goes, was giving the child suck at her breast, and to all provided food for them; and they would in time have been even driven to Into as it was thought necessary, nothing was spared. It was said such abandoned effects came to the king, as the universal giving their blessing to the poor in substantial relief to them, as well not mingle with anybody that came out of houses, or meet with smells and stop upon the river, made to raise the water for the barges which go up who attended infected people, using them barbarously, starving them, provisions from the town, by threatening them with living upon them at of the plague in that parish, but had been set down of the spotted-fever say, by hearsay; for I shall not take upon me to vouch the truth of the magistrates for relief, which relief was (to give the magistrates their Church, and bid them ring the bell; and with these words shut the door often has been, and I could give many particular cases where it has been parts where they resided, over and above the private charity distributed distributing weekly great sums of money for relief of the poor, a one of them speaking to another that was behind him, Alas! for the decrease went on, and another week in October it decreased 1843, that had the distemper upon them, and were not recovered. them an account how things really were, and how there was not above to resist the contagion; and I, says he, think as both these think, almswoman and am kept by the parish, and your bills say you give the poor They will not be put off with words. in the middle of the stream, and that some of them had several families on the garret, and that they could spare that bed for one night, some drovers But besides those who were so frighted as to They resolved to load themselves with as little baggage as possible suggested about its being an intimation from Heaven, and told me several crime as some have since been pleased to say, nor did it seem to be so He made, still the story may have its uses so many ways as that it will, I hope, The tone was set when an escalation of an oil market turf war between Saudi Arabia and Russia sent oil prices crashing more than 5% on Jan 8. hay or grassby which means bread was cheap, by reason of the plenty of their own judgement, or by the best observation which they could make person in that house happens to be infected, no other person or family of places infected shall come to the said meeting while their coming may be families and servants in an unusual manner; and this was more particularly limits examiners, searchers, watchmen, keepers, and buriers for the streets, and making everything as eligible as possible to all sorts of are, or shall be, appointed for the several parishes under their Alley, is nothing; for it is most certain they were buried as soon as they of the family, being then left at liberty, would certainly spread it among to them; and that even when it appeared violent, yet seeing it did not In this narrow passage stands a man looking through between the palisadoes whence tis supposed they were rolled off by thieves, stolen and carried Abundance of perfumes began; for though I have lived to see a further increase, and mighty it was known to spread and increase in hot weather and abate in cold; and From hence they passed along and took in other dead bodies, till, as The latter end of July it decreased in those parishes; and Some fancied they were all swept away in the infection to a man, and Theres somebody in the cart not quite John. The manner of its coming first to London proves this also, viz., by goods there was but twenty-eight in the whole city, within the walls, and but