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"What the plague do you want? Have you no thought for the King's affairs? Babylas" this to his secretary "did I not tell you that I had much to do; that I must not be disturbed?"
"William Lilly, the almanack-maker, who predicted the plague, and, if old Rowley is to be believed, has great skill in the occult sciences, lives somewhere in Friday-street, not a stone's throw from this place. Let us go and find him out." "Agreed," replied Lydyard.
"Plague, pestilence, and fire seize William Caxton the printer, and his invention too!" cried my uncle, barbarously.
I was looked at like a monster, abused like a plague, and avoided like a maniac. There is probably some characteristic exaggeration in this statement, but considering the power wielded at this time by the Academy and its supporters, Haydon would undoubtedly have done better, from a worldly point of view, to keep clear of these controversies.
Then besides the weaving, I do a little with machine printing and composing, though I am little use at the finer kinds of printing; and moreover machine printing is beginning to die out, along with the waning of the plague of book-making, so I have had to turn to other things that I have a taste for, and have taken to mathematics; and also I am writing a sort of antiquarian book about the peaceable and private history, so to say, of the end of the nineteenth century, more for the sake of giving a picture of the country before the fighting began than for anything else.
It didn't uplift us to hear that plague was very bad all round, and after a somewhat jungly dinner during which we were very thoughtful and disinclined for conversation, we sought our mildewed couches, to rise again at skreich of day and continue our journey, till late on Tuesday night we got out finally at Baratah station and drove out to our present camping-ground.
To France, this plague came in a northern direction from Avignon, and was there more destructive than in Germany, so that in many places not more than two in twenty of the inhabitants survived.
At first they only roared against the roar of the surfacers and levellers. Then the words came up clearly the words of the Forbidden Song that all men knew, and none let pass their lips poor Pat MacDonough's Song, made in the days of the Crowds and the Plague every silly word of it loaded to sparking-point with the Planet's inherited memories of horror, panic, fear and cruelty.
To Tony each new machine was a toy to be played with; in a week or two he had mastered it and grown weary of it. Thenceforth he slacked at his work and became a demoralizing influence in his department, a source of anxiety to his steady-going father, a plague to his employer, till the holiday time was done.
A long and sad deliberation took place on the question which now arose relative to the men who were incurably ill of the plague, or who were at the point of death. After a discussion of the most serious and conscientious kind it was decided to accelerate a few moments, by a potion, a death which was inevitable, and which would otherwise be painful and cruel.
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