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of the June sunshine, stricken for its sins by the hand of God The

pest-houses were full, so were the plague-pits, where the dead were

hurled in cartfuls; and no one kneho rose up in health in thestark and dead in a few hours The very

churches were forsaken; their pastors fled or lying in the plague-pits;

and it was even resolved to convert the great cathedral of St Paul into

a vast plague-hospital Cries and lamentations echoed from one end

of the city to the other, and Death and Charles reigned over London

together

Yet in the ies and debauchery

still went on within its gates--as, in our own day, when the cholera

ravaged Paris, the inhabitants of that facetious city made it a

carnival, so now, in London, they werethey had but a

few days to live at the e in the

revelry while they yet existed "Eat, drink, and be merry, for to-morrow

you die!" was their motto; and if in the midst of the frantic dance or

debauched revel one of thehter, hurled the livid body out to the street, and the dereice as fast and furious as before Robbers and cut-purses

paraded the streets at noonday, entered boldly closed and deserted

houses, and bore off with ihway fro fearlessly the flying

citizens In fact, far-faiven one a good idea of Pandemonium broke loose