item: #1 of 105 id: A01346 author: Fuller, Thomas, Master of Arts. title: A sermon intended for Paul's Crosse, but preached in the Church of St. Paul's, London, the III. of December, M.DC.XXV. Vpon the late decrease and withdrawing of Gods heauie visitation of the plague of pestilence from the said citie. By Tho: Fuller, Master of Arts in Pembroke-Hall in Cambridge date: 1626.0 words: 17298 flesch: 69 summary: F●u●●hly the cure intended in the same verse applyed in the next . Wherefore as Tully spake of a booke which Cran●or wrote , it was Paruus , sed aureolus , & ad verbum ediscendus , with better reason may I say of this Text of Scripture , it deserues to bee engrauen vpon the palmes of our hands , or rather on the tables of our hearts , neuer to bee forgotten , to be worne as a bracelet vpon our armes , or rather as a ●ron●let betweene our eyes , still to bee thought vpon and still to magnifie God for it . keywords: bee; dauid; death; doe; giue; god; gods; hands; hath; haue; heauen; hee; himselfe; king; life; lord; man; men; ouer; praise; saith; soule; text; themselues; things; time; transgressions; vnto; vpon; wee; word; ● ● cache: A01346.xml plain text: A01346.txt item: #2 of 105 id: A01800 author: Godskall, James. title: The arke of noah for the Londoners that remaine in the cittie to enter in, with their families, to be preserued from the deluge of the plague. Item, an exercise for the Londoners that are departed out of the cittie into the coutnrey, to spend their time till they returne. Whereunto is annexed an epistle sent out of the countrey, to the afflicted cittie of London. Made and written by Iames Godskall the yonger, preacher of the word. date: 1604.0 words: 25704 flesch: 75 summary: Prayers , are the almes of the rich as well as of the poore : for Pharao did as well begge for prayers , as poore Lazarus for crummes . Remember O Lord the children of Edom ( these superstitious Romanists ) which speake , rase it , rase it to the foundation thereof . keywords: arke; bee; christ; citie; countrey; dauid; god; goe; good; hath; haue; heauen; hee; holy; king; lord; men; place; plague; prayer; psal; righteous; soules; thee; things; thou; thy; time; vnto; vpon; wee; yee cache: A01800.xml plain text: A01800.txt item: #3 of 105 id: A02053 author: Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632. title: Nevves from Graues-end sent to nobody. date: 1604.0 words: 10115 flesch: 65 summary: Know then ( Monnsier verse-gilder ) that I haue failed ( during this storme of the Pestilence ) round about the vast Iland of the whole world , which when I found to be made like a foote-ball , the best thing in it , being but a bladder of mans life , ( lost with a litle pricke ) I tooke vp my foote and spurnd at it , bicause I haue heard that none but fooles make account of the world . Strange fashions did I pick ( like wormes ) out of the fingers of euery Nation , a number of phantastick Popin-Iayes and Apes ( with faces like men ) keywords: bin; death; english; euen; euery; good; graues; haue; heauen; london; man; mans; men; neuer; new; owne; plague; selfe; soule; tcp; text; thee; thou; thy; vnder; vpon; world cache: A02053.xml plain text: A02053.txt item: #4 of 105 id: A02427 author: A. H. title: Another godly letter, lately written to the same H.H. by his owne sister out of the countrey, about eighty miles from London date: 1625.0 words: 1583 flesch: 62 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A02427) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 28145) keywords: eebo; english; sister; tcp; text cache: A02427.xml plain text: A02427.txt item: #5 of 105 id: A02444 author: Hobbes, Stephen. title: A nevv treatise of the pestilence, containing the causes, signes, preseruatiues and cure thereof The like not before this time pubished [sic]. And therefore necessarie for all manner of persons, in this time of contagion. S. H. Studious in phisicke. date: 1603.0 words: 3807 flesch: 69 summary: For which cause the learned Phisitions as well Auncient as moderne giue counsell that in the time of pestilence and contagion , those bodies that are humid and moyst , must bee by all manner of meanes made drie , and those that are dry to be kept and preserued in their drinesse : for by obseruation it is very well knowne that the Phiegmaticke and sanguine body is sooner subiect to infection then the Choloricke or Melancholike , and experience doth dayly teach vs when for the most part women , children , and men of yoong yeares are those that die in this disease of the pestilence as those bodies that are hot and moyst and thereby fittest to receiue putrif●c●ion . But for the more certainty , we must consider these symtomes or signes that follow , there hapneth after infection a great pricking , and shooting in the body and especially in the necke armeholes and flanckes , also extreame heate within the body , and in the hands , knees , and feete very co●d so that there is ioyned with the same a shiuering as in a feuer : also their is heauines of the head , drynesse of the mouth , with extreame thirst ; also a drowsinesse and great desire to sleepe : some againe are so watchfull that they cannot sleepe , so that they ra●e as thought they were in a phrens●e : there happeneth also great paine in the head faintnesse sluggishnesse , weakenesse of the l●mmee , pensiuenesse , no desire of meat with oftē vomiting , the matter being bitter & of diuers colours , the vrine troubled , thicke and stinking & for the most part without residence . keywords: body; cure; haue; infection; pestilence; signes; tcp; text; time cache: A02444.xml plain text: A02444.txt item: #6 of 105 id: A02799 author: Hastler, Thomas. title: An antidote against the plague. Or Panchrestōn: a salue for all sores which applied and practised, will soone awaken the Lords mercy, and suddenly cause the storms of his iust iudgements to vanish away. Deliuered in a sermon, preached within the Cathedrall Church of Saint Paules, London. date: 1615.0 words: 9629 flesch: 69 summary: When the Disciples once perceiued , that there was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 : a mightie storme , a shaking tempest , which strongly had inuironed them : when the Lord had sent forth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , a vehement whirlewind , or as Lorinus termeth it , plurium conflictū ventorum , a conflict of many winds , which all at once smote the shippe on euery part , and broght the swelling waues euery way vpon it , as if in an instant they would haue buried both ship and passengers in the surges : when the mercilesse Ocean vnder them was thus billowing , the brittle ship about them reeling , the Mariners for feare of shipwracke , lamentably shreeking , and Christ their only hope and helpe in the sterne fast sleeping , when this great ieopardie had euen almost seized on them all , Then his Disciples came vnto him , and awoke him , saying , Lord saue vs , we perish . Culpae comes , iustissimè poena semper est , The companions of our sinnes , are many plagues , which continually attend vs , like so many hunger-starued Lions , euer gaping to deuour vs. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , and our God is fallen into a deepe sleepe . keywords: bee; christ; disciples; doe; god; gods; haue; hee; lord; mercy; non; prayer; psal; saint; saith; selfe; tcp; text; thee; thou; thy; time; vnto; vpon; wee cache: A02799.xml plain text: A02799.txt item: #7 of 105 id: A03111 author: Herring, Francis, d. 1628. title: Certaine rules, directions, or advertisements for this time of pestilentiall contagion With a caveat to those that weare about their neckes impoisoned amulets as a preservative from the plague. First published for the behoofe of the citie of London, in the two visitations, 1603 & 1625. And reprinted for the benefit of the said citie now visited, and all other parts of the land that may or shall hereafter be: by Francis Herring ... Whereunto is added certaine directions, for the poorer sort of people when they shall be visited. date: 1636.0 words: 5566 flesch: 68 summary: In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. EEBO-TCP aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). keywords: amulets; citie; directions; good; london; nature; non; people; plague; sort; tcp; text; time; vineger; water cache: A03111.xml plain text: A03111.txt item: #8 of 105 id: A03119 author: Herring, Francis, d. 1628. title: A modest defence of the caueat giuen to the wearers of impoisoned amulets, as preseruatiues from the plague wherein that point is somewhat more lergely reasoned and debated with an ancient physician, who hath mainteined them by publicke writing: as likewise that vnlearned and dangerous opinion, that the plague is not infectious, lately broched in London, is briefly glansed at, and refuted by way of preface, by Fr. Hering D. in Physicke. Reade without preiudice; iudge without partialitie. date: 1604.0 words: 14684 flesch: 63 summary: Now to applie those things that haue beene spoken , to our purpose , I affirme confidently , that such a medicine of poisons applied outwardly to the body , hath no manifest , probable or demonstratiue reason , whereby we may be persuaded that they haue so miraculous efficacie against the Plague . It is euident , thar the heart is the principall obiect of poisons : how then shall it be touched by a venimous qualitie , and not endure wrong ? Touching their experience , I cannot yet giue credit to it . keywords: amulets; arsenicke; body; doe; doth; experience; good; hath; haue; heart; like; man; medicine; men; nature; neuer; opinion; parts; physicians; physicke; plague; poison; reason; spirits; substance; tcp; text; things; time; vnto; vpon; vse cache: A03119.xml plain text: A03119.txt item: #9 of 105 id: A03264 author: Balmford, James, b. 1556. title: A short dialogue concerning the plagues infection Published to preserue bloud, through the blessing of God. date: 1603.0 words: 18155 flesch: 79 summary: For whereas they should be swift to heare and slow to speake , they haue heauie eares , and readie tongues to speake euil of things they know not , and so scandalize ( that is , stumble ) themselues and other , in hearing the word , which is to be heard not as the words of men , but as indéed the word of God. But this is an honest thing before God and men , that Kings should ( out of a fatherly care ) preserue their subiects from destruction , by infection , as wel as by the sword . keywords: cause; christ; faith; feare; god; gods; good; hath; haue; infected; infection; man; men; pag; people; plague; profess; sicke; time; vpon; word cache: A03264.xml plain text: A03264.txt item: #10 of 105 id: A04627 author: Jones, William, b. 1581 or 2. title: The true inquisition or The sad soules search Preached at Newport, May 29. 1632 in the primary visitation of the worshipfull Mr. Edvvard Burbye, Archdeacon of Winton. dBy W. Iones, B. of D. preacher to the Isle of Wight, and Vicar of Arreton. date: 1633.0 words: 7783 flesch: 76 summary: But if we goe on in our evill wayes , then the Lord will powre downe his vialls of indignation upon us : God will wound the hairy scalp of such as go on still in their trespasses , Psal . So then , whereas the Prophet sayes , Let us search and try our wayes , T is as if he had sayd , Let us examine our thoughts , words and deeds ; Let us consider wherein we have transgressed the Commandements of God , or done ought against his will. keywords: bee; doe; god; gods; lord; man; owne; search; searching; thou; wayes; wee; word cache: A04627.xml plain text: A04627.txt item: #11 of 105 id: A06182 author: Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625. title: A treatise of the plague containing the nature, signes, and accidents of the same, with the certaine and absolute cure of the feuers, botches and carbuncles that raigne in these times: and aboue all things most singular experiments and preseruatiues in the same, gathered by the obseruation of diuers worthy trauailers, and selected out of the writing of the best learned phisitians in this age. By Thomas Lodge, Doctor in Phisicke. date: 1603.0 words: 29525 flesch: 52 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. EEBO-TCP aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). keywords: ayre; body; booke; carbuncle; cause; contagion; drachme; euery; fol; galen; giue; good; halfe; hath; haue; heart; infected; infection; like; man; meanes; men; nature; ounce; patient; place; plague; powlder; reason; rose; saith; sicke; sore; things; thrée; time; venime; vertue; vnto; vpon; vse; water; white; wine cache: A06182.xml plain text: A06182.txt item: #12 of 105 id: A06234 author: City of London (England). Lord Mayor. title: Orders conceiued and agreed to be published, by the Lord Mayor and aldermen of the citie of London, and the iustices of peace of the counties of Middlesex and Surrey, by direction from the Lords of His Maiesties most honourable Priuie Councell date: 1608.0 words: 2671 flesch: 59 summary: In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. IF any person visited doe fortuue , by negligent looking vnto , or by any other meanes , to come or be conuayed from a place infected , to any other place , the Parish from whence such partie hath come , or beene conuaied , vpon notice thereof giuen , shall at their charge cause the saide party so visited and escaped , to be carried and brought backe againe by night , and the parties in this case offending , to bee punished at the direction of the Alderman of the Warde , and the Iustices of the Peace respectiuely : and the house of the receiuer of such visited person , to be shutte vp for twenty daies . THat euery house visited be marked with a red Crosse of a foote long , in the middle of the Doore , euident to be seene , and with these vsuall printed wordes : that is to say , Lord haue mercy vpon vs to be set close ouer the same Crosse , there to continue vntill lawfull opening of the same house . keywords: citie; euery; house; london; tcp; text; vpon cache: A06234.xml plain text: A06234.txt item: #13 of 105 id: A06241 author: City of London (England). Court of Aldermen. title: Orders to be vsed in the time of the infection of the plague vvithin the citie and liberties of London, till further charitable prouision may be had for places of receite for the visited with infection date: 1625.0 words: 3273 flesch: 69 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. keywords: euery; house; infection; parish; tcp; text; time cache: A06241.xml plain text: A06241.txt item: #14 of 105 id: A06242 author: City of London (England). Lord Mayor (1624-1625 : Gore) title: By the major whereas the infection of the plague is daily dispersed more & more in diuers parts of this city and the liberties thereof ... date: 1625.0 words: 1424 flesch: 63 summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 28787) keywords: eebo; english; london; tcp; text cache: A06242.xml plain text: A06242.txt item: #15 of 105 id: A06243 author: City of London (England). Court of Common Council. title: Orders heertofore conceiued and agreed to bee published by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the citie of London and the iustices of peace of the counties of Middlesex and Surrey, by direction from the lords of His Maiesties most honourable priuie councell, and now thought fit to be reuiued, and againe published. date: 1625.0 words: 2984 flesch: 59 summary: THat the sweeping and filth of houses to bee daily carried away by the Rakers , and that the Raker shall giue notice of his comming by the blowing of a horne , as heretofore hath beene done . THat the Laystalles be remoued as farre as may bee out of the City , and common passages , and that no Night-man or other be suffered to emptie a Vault into any Garden , neere about the City . Euery visited house to be marked . keywords: bee; euery; house; infected; tcp; text cache: A06243.xml plain text: A06243.txt item: #16 of 105 id: A06247 author: England and Wales. title: An act for the charitable reliefe and ordering of person infected with the plague date: 1630.0 words: 2540 flesch: 51 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: corporate; infected; iustices; peace; tcp; text cache: A06247.xml plain text: A06247.txt item: #17 of 105 id: A06248 author: City of London (England). Lord Mayor. title: By the mayor the right honourable the lord mayor, and his brethren the aldermen of the city of London, considering how the infection of the plague is dispersed in divers and sundry places neere about this city, doe ... command all manner of persons ... to take notice of, and obserue these seuerall articles ensuing ... date: 1630.0 words: 1560 flesch: 61 summary: (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A06248) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 28788) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: city; london; mayor; tcp; text cache: A06248.xml plain text: A06248.txt item: #18 of 105 id: A06259 author: Chettle, Henry, d. 1607? title: A True bill of the whole number that hath died in the cittie of London, the citty of Westminster, the citty of Norwich, and diuers other places, since the time this last sicknes of the plague began in either of them, to this present month of October the sixt day, 1603 with a relation of many visitations by the plague, in sundry other forraine countries. date: 1603.0 words: 2984 flesch: 77 summary: In the yéere 540. there began an vniuersall plague all ouer the world , that continued 50. yéeres with great violence . plague 60 From the 12 of August to the 19. keywords: number; plague; tcp; text; vvhereof; yéere cache: A06259.xml plain text: A06259.txt item: #19 of 105 id: A06288 author: Royal College of Physicians of London. title: Certain necessary directions, aswell for the cure of the plague as for preuenting the infection; with many easie medicines of small charge, very profitable to His Maiesties subiects / set downe by the Colledge of Physicians by the Kings Maiesties speciall command ; with sundry orders thought meet by His Maiestie, and his Priuie Councell, to be carefully executed for preuention of the plague ; also certaine select statutes commanded by His Maiestie to be put in execution by all iustices, and other officers of the peace throughout the realme ; together with His Maiesties proclamation for further direction therein, and a decree in Starre-Chamber, concerning buildings and in-mates. date: 1636.0 words: 28930 flesch: 46 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. Certain necessary directions, aswell for the cure of the plague as for preuenting the infection; with many easie medicines of small charge, very profitable to His Maiesties subiects / set downe by the Colledge of Physicians by the Kings Maiesties speciall command ; with sundry orders thought meet by His Maiestie, and his Priuie Councell, to be carefully executed for preuention of the plague ; also certaine select statutes commanded by His Maiestie to be put in execution by all iustices, and other officers of the peace throughout the realme ; together with His Maiesties proclamation for further direction therein, and a decree in Starre-Chamber, concerning buildings and in-mates. keywords: act; aforesaid; bee; city; corporate; county; doe; euery; good; haue; house; infected; infection; iustices; london; orders; ouerseers; parish; peace; persons; places; plague; present; realme; reliefe; rogues; sessions; shal; themselues; time; towne; vpon; water cache: A06288.xml plain text: A06288.txt item: #20 of 105 id: A06291 author: Royal College of Physicians of London. title: The Kings medicines for the plague prescribed for the yeare 1604. by the whole Colledge of Physitians, both spirituall and temporall. And now most fitting for this dangerous time of infection, to be used all England over. date: 1636.0 words: 4191 flesch: 71 summary: Lord God , thou best Physitian , both of our soules & bodies , who canst bring to the Graue , & pull back againe whom thou ●easest , which wert moued at the Prayers of Moses for others : of Ezekiah for himselfe : Oh Lord heare me for others , others for me , and all of vs for thy Son : and looke with the ●ye of mercy vpon mee whom it hath pleased ●●ée at this time to visit with the Plague and Sicknesse . Oh Lord , I haue ●éene an vnprofitable seruant all my life time : Oh thē let me not then be bereft of the ●●fe of nature , when I begin the life of grace : keywords: good; lord; plague; quantity; tcp; text; thou; thy; time; water cache: A06291.xml plain text: A06291.txt item: #21 of 105 id: A07398 author: Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632, attributed name. title: The meeting of gallants at an ordinarie: or The walkes in Powles date: 1604.0 words: 7430 flesch: 63 summary: But here comes in the excellent ●…elt , Gentlemen ▪ Gallants of fiue and twentie , about the darke and pitt●… season of the night : a sh●…acke drunkard , ( or one drunke at the signe of the Ship , ) new cast from the shore of an Alehouse , and his braines sore beaten with the cruell tempests of Ale and Béere , fell Flounce v●…on a lowe stall hard by the house , there being little difference in the Carcasse , for the other was dead , and he was dead-drunke , ( the worse death of the ●…waine ) there taking v●… his drunken Lodging , and the Pest-cart comming by , they made no more ad●… , but taking him sa●… the dead Bodie , placed him amongst his companions , and away they ●…rred with him to the Pest-house : but there is an 〈◊〉 Prouerbs , and now confirmed true , a Druncken ma●… neuer takes harme : to the Appre●…ation of which , for all his lying with infections Be dfellow●… , the next morning a little before he should be burie●… , he streaht and yaw●… as wholesomely , as the best Tinker in all Banburie , and returned to his olde Vomit againe , and was drunck●… in Shoreditch before 〈◊〉 . 〈◊〉 so the good man of the house driuen to lye in the one sheete for shift , till the payre be washt and dried : for you knowe tenne wound out of one house , must for shame carry fiue payre of shéetes with them , being co●…find and put to boord-wages , the onely Knights policy to saue charges in victualles . keywords: againe; bene; famine; gallants; haue; host; house; london; man; pestilence; plague; powles; sig; tales; tcp; text; thou; vpon; warre cache: A07398.xml plain text: A07398.txt item: #22 of 105 id: A07877 author: Muggins, William. title: Londons mourning garment, or funerall teares worne and shed for the death of her wealthy cittizens, and other her inhabitants. To which is added, a zealous and feruent prayer, with a true relation how many haue dyed of all diseases, in euery particuler parish within London, the liberties, and out parishes neere adioyning from the 14 of Iuly 1603. to the 17 of Nouember. following. date: 1603.0 words: 8647 flesch: 71 summary: nay , then I see the Prouerbe old is true , The widdowes care is st●dious where to loue , Sith women are so fickle , men to you , LONDON laments , will ye her plaints remoue . Is there none founde , that feeles a present smart ? Nor none a liue , that can c●use Teares to flow ? keywords: children; day; death; doth; god; good; hath; haue; heart; life; london; mary; men; mother; neuer; parish; poore; sorrowes; tcp; teares; text; thee; thou; vnto cache: A07877.xml plain text: A07877.txt item: #23 of 105 id: A08913 author: Johnson, Thomas, d. 1644. title: A treatise of the plague contayning the causes, signes, symptomes, prognosticks, and cure thereof. Together with sundry other remarkable passages (for the prevention of, and preservation from the pestilence) never yet published by anie man. Collected out of the workes of the no lesse learned than experimented and renowned chirurgian Ambrose Parey. date: 1630.0 words: 29242 flesch: 51 summary: But Vrines onely shew the dispositions of the humours or parts in which they are made , collected together , and through which they doe passe . And to conclude , the varietie of accidents is almost infinite , which appeare and spring vp in this kind of Disease , by reason of the diuersitie of the Poyson and condition of the Bodyes and greeued parts : but they doe not all appeare in each Man , but some in one , and some in another . CHAP. keywords: aire; bee; bloud; body; disease; doe; doth; dramme; feauer; forth; foure; good; halfe; hath; haue; heart; humors; leaues; malignitie; matter; medicines; nature; ounce; parts; patient; pestilence; plague; reason; roses; sorrell; thereof; things; treacle; verie; vineger; vnto; vse; water cache: A08913.xml plain text: A08913.txt item: #24 of 105 id: A09523 author: Petowe, Henry. title: The countrie ague. Or, London her vvelcome home to her retired children Together, with a true relation of the warlike funerall of Captaine Richard Robyns, one of the twentie captaines of the trayned bands of the citie of London, which was performed the 24. day of September last, 1625. in armes, in the time of this visitation which the rumour in the countrey went currant, that London had not people enough left aliue to bury her dead. By Henry Petovve, Marshall of the Artillerie Garden, London. date: None words: 7373 flesch: 66 summary: Well , if it be so then , that thou must of necessitie haue money , or be vndone , and thy Lease forfeited , and thou , thy Wife and Children cast foorth of dores ; what resteth then to be done ? Must thou not of force come vnto mee thy charitable Neighbour London ; and doe not I from time to time , nay , at all times helpe you in the midst of your extremitie ; Is not my Exchequer continually open vnto you : I haue no Barrocadoes to keepe you forth ; but my Gates all houres of the night are open for the meanest Hynde or Swaine that comes . doth daily take more and more to hart , thinking that it is now time to hold his Angels Rod from further striking : Now the God of all mercy grant it may be so ; and I hope my prayer is to purpose ; For me thinkes ( vnlesse I dreame ) I perceiue my Children begin to retire , and to returne home againe to their Foster-mother London , which they would not doe ; did not my blessed Sauiour lessen his weekly Number : keywords: ague; children; countrie; eccho; giue; god; haue; home; london; mee; tcp; text; time; visitation; vpon cache: A09523.xml plain text: A09523.txt item: #25 of 105 id: A09527 author: Petowe, Henry. title: Londoners their entertainment in the countrie. Or the whipping of runnawayes Wherein is described, Londons miserie. The countries crueltie. And mans inhumanitie. date: 1604.0 words: 7773 flesch: 65 summary: I answere no : for assure thy selfe thou Country-man , or Townes man , whosoeuer thou be , that if thou be visited , it is thy sinne that causeth visitation , for else thou shouldest accuse God of iniustice , and improuidence . Is the Lord of this might ? of such power ? and such wonderfull omnipotencie : and doest thou thinke thou art frée from his anger and punishment , by flying twentie miles from the place of his visitation : no surely , nay , thou knowest it thy selfe for truth : Hath he not strucken thée ? or in sparing thy selfe , hath hee not visited thy wife or children ? I knowe it is true , yea , to thy griefe thou hast found it true . keywords: art; body; cause; city; country; euen; god; hath; haue; london; selfe; sinne; tcp; text; thou; thy; thée cache: A09527.xml plain text: A09527.txt item: #26 of 105 id: A10078 author: Price, Sampson, 1585 or 6-1630. title: Londons remembrancer: for the staying of the contagious sicknes of the plague by Dauids memoriall. As it vvas follovved in a sermon preached in Christs-church in London, the 22. of Ianuarie. 1626. Vpon occasion of the publique thanksgiuing, enioyned by his maiesties proclamation. By Samson Price, Doctor of Diuinitie, one of his Majesties chapleins in ordinarie. date: 1626.0 words: 12494 flesch: 82 summary: A deliuerance of our whole State , and while we haue pennes to write , tongues to speake , a generation liuing , or a posteritie succeeding , wee will report it , and repeate it to God with Dauids Memorandum ; Remember O Lord the children of Edom in the day of Ierusalem , who sayd , Raze it , raze it , euen to the foundation thereof . Right Honourable , IT is the great worke of God , to reclaime from their offences , those whom he loueth , by corrections : To this end as he bestoweth fauours vpon some in anger , as he did Quailes vpon the Israelites : so striketh he others in mercie , that they may be zealous , and repent . keywords: children; dauid; euer; god; gods; hath; haue; heart; hee; king; lord; man; men; plague; remembrance; soule; text; things; thy; vnto; vpon; wee cache: A10078.xml plain text: A10078.txt item: #27 of 105 id: A13646 author: Thayre, Thomas. title: A treatise of the pestilence vvherein is shewed all the causes thereof, with most assured preseruatiues against all infection: and lastly is taught the true and perfect cure of the pestilence, by most excellent and approued medicines. Composed by Thomas Thayre chirurgian, for the benefite of his countrie, but chiefly for the honorable city of London. date: 1603.0 words: 22191 flesch: 70 summary: sanitat . also increa●h wind , ●oler , & me●choly . ●●metimes the ● is corrup●● by naturall ●ses , & som●●●es by euill ●its com●ded by God ●●e first cause . keywords: aire; body; botch; cause; cure; day; diet; dram; foure; giue; gods; good; great; halfe; hath; haue; heart; infection; lord; meanes; morning; nature; ounce; person; pestilence; set; sicknesse; sléepe; sore; thrée; time; vinegar; vnto; vse; vsed; water; ● ● cache: A13646.xml plain text: A13646.txt item: #28 of 105 id: A14249 author: B. V., fl. 1625. title: The run-awyaes [sic] answer to a booke called, A rodde for runne-awayes. In vvhich are set downe a defense for their running, with some reasons perswading some of them neuer to come backe. The vsage of Londoners by the countrey people; drawne in a picture, artificially looking two waies, (foorth-right, and a-squint:) with an other picture done in lant-skipp, in which the Londoners and countrey-men dance a morris together. Lastly, a runne-awaies speech to his fellow run-awaies, arming them to meete death within the listes, and not to shunne him. date: 1625.0 words: 8889 flesch: 75 summary: For as Pitty amongst the Stoickes was held a vitious Passion ; So our Countrey Gnoffes ( Hob , Dick , and Hick ) are turnd Stoickes , and hate Pitty worse then a Lawyer does a Clyent in Forma-Pauperis , These are the sower Plummes with which we haue bene fed in the Countrey ; we send them to you for Samples ; but if you should after dinner haue all these sorts of Raw Fruict set before you , which were gathred for vs , and that you were constrayned to eate them , as we were , it is impossible but to driue you into Consumptions , for many of vs here are falne into that Languishing Disease and we feare it will follow vs to London . so sharpe , spare your Rodde a little , and whippe vs not for going to see our * Freinds in the Countrey , we doe not thinke but You yourselfe ( could you haue gotte a Horse ) would haue bin one of the Tribe of Gad , with one of your Comerades ; for ther 's no Dancing now to your Theatrian Poeticall Piping : Neither your Frierians , nor Cock pitterians , can for loue or money helpe you to a Plaudity , we wish for their owne sakes ( and yours ) they could : But many of them ( that could get Winges ) haue kept company with vs in our flight ; neyther are Wee or They to be condemned ; Flesh and Bloud naturally abhorres dissolution : All desire to begett Children , but none loue to see them buried : so mortally doe we hate the name of Death , that though we lye in our last Sheete , saue one ( which must winde vs , ) we hardly endure the Name of Dying . keywords: awaies; away; children; countrey; death; doe; english; hath; haue; london; londoners; men; owne; run; runne; text; vpon; wee cache: A14249.xml plain text: A14249.txt item: #29 of 105 id: A14593 author: I. W. title: A Briefe treatise of the plague vvherein is shewed, the [brace] naturall cause of the plague, preseruations from the infection, way to cure the infected. date: 1603.0 words: 4578 flesch: 70 summary: Also if you Iuniper , Ta●●●●is●●● , Bay lea●●●s , Rosemary , and such like are very good to purge the house of ●ll aires , and to 〈…〉 and from ●pon it the p●●●er of Rosemary , Sage , Rew , Be●on●e , wormewood , Mai●ram , Orig●n , Iuniper berries , M●●h , Frankensence and Ma●●●ke , Cipres●e barkes , Angeli●● the r●●ts or ●ea●●s , Lau●nder , 〈◊〉 of Aloes , Gall●● Mus●h●●a , C●oues , any one of all these are very good to aire your house withall . Therefore , during the time of 〈…〉 sickenesse 〈◊〉 must haue a speciall regard , to kéep● himselfe from all 〈◊〉 , and 〈◊〉 ( to wit ) from all excesse of meate , drinke , sweating , bathes , lechery , and all other things that open the pores of the body , and causeth the bad ayres to enter , which entering , inuenome the liuely spirits of man , and infect , and indanger the whole body . And seeing it is euident , that the plague as pestilence is not caused , but through the breathing in of pestilent and corrupt ayre , there cannot be a more ●a●e and present remedy to preserue one , then by ●ying from that corrupt aire , there is no other meanes to 〈◊〉 pestilent ayre , because , whether 〈…〉 we must draw in such ayre , vnlesse we get vs away into some other place where the ayre is not corrupted nor infected , but pure and good , neither must you returne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from that place 〈◊〉 . keywords: aire; ayre; body; good; infected; infection; meanes; plague; tcp; text; ● ● cache: A14593.xml plain text: A14593.txt item: #30 of 105 id: A15689 author: Woodall, John, 1556?-1643. title: The cure of the plague by an antidote called aurum vitæ. Being well approved to be an easie safe, and perfect cure thereof; as also of contagious agues, or feavers beginning either hot or cold. The description, order and use whereof, together with the said antidote, and are to be sold at the shop of Nicholas Bourne, stationer, at the south entrance of the royal exchange. Invented and produced by John Woodall, master in surgery. Published by authority. date: 1640.0 words: 3514 flesch: 55 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A15689 of text S113972 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 25961). But as Gold , that excellent mineral , excelleth all other mettals , in price and vertue ; even so the true prepared medicines thereof , as far exceed al other mineral medicines in their vertues , in the preserving and defending of men from Diseases , as also in curing their inffrmities , when by Gods permission they seize upon the bodyes of mankind . keywords: antidote; cure; disease; medicine; patient; plague; text cache: A15689.xml plain text: A15689.txt item: #31 of 105 id: A16629 author: Bradwell, Stephen. title: A vvatch-man for the pest Teaching the true rules of preservation from the pestilent contagion, at this time fearefully over-flowing this famous cittie of London. Collected out of the best authors, mixed with auncient experience, and moulded into a new and most plaine method; by Steven Bradvvell of London, Physition. 1625. date: 1625.0 words: 22177 flesch: 77 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. And when it hath begun , it spreads but by degrees ; first striking one man onely ; then two or three ; after that a few more ; and so multiplying the succeeding number , as it evidently groweth more contagious by the number of bodies already infected . keywords: aire; bodies; body; cause; cold; doe; drinke; good; hath; haue; heat; hot; houres; humors; infection; keepe; man; moyst; nature; place; plague; putrefaction; rose; spirits; stomach; things; time; vineager; vpon; vse; water; way; weather; wine cache: A16629.xml plain text: A16629.txt item: #32 of 105 id: A16817 author: T. B. (Thomas Brewer) title: A dialogue betuuixt a cittizen, and a poore countrey man and his wife, in the countrey, where the citizen remaineth now in this time of sicknesse written by him in the countrey, who sent the coppy to a friend in London ; being both pitifull and pleasant. date: 1636.0 words: 5790 flesch: 82 summary: comest to us , With crueltie thou art inclinde , for to pursue men still : Thou wast in London when we came out , Throwing thy deadly darts about , And now in the Countrey thou art as stout , to follow thy froward will. ill. Printed by R. Oulton for H. Gosson and are to be sold at his shop upon London Bridge neere the Gate, London : 1636. keywords: cit; countrey; doe; god; goe; good; london; man; men; tcp; text; thou cache: A16817.xml plain text: A16817.txt item: #33 of 105 id: A16822 author: T. B. (Thomas Brewer) title: The vveeping lady: or, London like Niniuie in sack-cloth Describing the mappe of her owne miserie, in this time of her heauy visitation; with her hearty prayers, admonition, and pious meditations, as the occasions of them offer themselues in her passion. Written by T.B. date: 1629.0 words: 5357 flesch: 80 summary: See some o're taken with so faint a breath , Ere halfe their Iourneyes done they Inne with Death , I' th' common way they tread on ; as they goe Fall to the ground and dye : great numbers so In Rodes , in Ditches , in the open Field , The debt of Breath , thus to their Maker yeeld ; And wher● they dye , are buried . ha's , ( though too weak a Pencil-Man for such a Piece ) vndertaken to draw that Sorrow to the Life , that ha's drawne many thousands to Death ; my Title speaks my meaning ; The Wounds of this VVEEPING LADY . keywords: crosse; death; doe; god; hath; haue; heere; mercy; tcp; text; vpon cache: A16822.xml plain text: A16822.txt item: #34 of 105 id: A17452 author: Crouch, Humphrey, fl. 1635-1671, attributed name. title: Londons Lord have mercy vpon vs A true relation of five modern plagues or visitations in London, with the number of all the diseased that were buried: viz: the first in the yeare of Queen Elizabeth, Anno 1592, the second in the yeare 1603, the third in that (never to be forgotten yeare) 1625. The fourth in Anno 1630. The fift this now present visitation 1636, which the Lord of his mercy deliver London and England from. date: 1637.0 words: 3379 flesch: 78 summary: Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 17195) Let all infe●●●d houses be thy Text , And make ●●is use , that thine may be the next . keywords: august; decem; iune; octob; septem cache: A17452.xml plain text: A17452.txt item: #35 of 105 id: A17453 author: Crouch, Humphrey, fl. 1635-1671. title: Londons vacation, and the countries tearme. Or, A lamentable relation of severall remarkable passages which it hath pleased the Lord to shew on severall persons both in London, and the country in this present visitation, 1636. with the number of those thay dyed at London and Newcastle, this present yeare. With new additions. By H.C. date: 1637.0 words: 4980 flesch: 78 summary: Next morning he did rise as from the dead , And finding that himself was covered Vnder a Coffin , he did wonder much , He threw the Coffin off him with a touch : ●o up he gets , then up and down did walk , And at the length he heard some people ●alk ; Over a brick-wall th●n this man did clime , And cald for help , to call for help 't was time . Y●u 〈◊〉 lots and you st●umpe●s 〈◊〉 , V●in glorious in your strange attire , Whose hearts in sin are much imbrewd , Repent with speed I you desire , For sinne brings sadnesse to our coast , Sinne c●used I●sabell to fall , And for our sinnes our doores are crost With Lord have mercy on us all . keywords: london; lord; man; mercy; tcp; text; ● ● cache: A17453.xml plain text: A17453.txt item: #36 of 105 id: A17772 author: University of Cambridge. title: Orders agreed upon, and published by the vicechancellour and maior of the Vniversitie and town of Cambridge and the justices of both bodies, and the doctors and aldermen their assistants. date: 1629.0 words: 3361 flesch: 49 summary: I THat the articles and clauses of the statute made in the first yeare of our late Soveraigne King JAMES of happy memory , and all other orders made by his Majestie , or the Honourable Lords of his Privie-Councel for the relief and ordering of persons infected with the plague , be duely executed and observed by all persons whom they concern , upon such pain and penalty as in the said statute and orders is expressed . II That all searchers , examiners , or overseers of the visited ; all constables , churchwardens , and overseers of the poore ; all watchmen , and warders , and other persons appointed to any office in their severall places do from time to time duely and truely perform their offices , and execute that charge which is given unto them , upon pain of imprisonment , and such further punishment as may be inflicted by statutes and orders upon such persons as contemne authority . III That all searchers , examiners , or overseers ; all constables , churchwardens , and overseers of the poore in this Town , do from time to time make enquiry after such persons as are sick in their parishes , and of what diseases ; and in case that it be apparent , or suspected to be of the plague , that they acquaint the chief examiner or overseer with it , and presently restrain accesse unto suspected houses , and persons , untill it appeare what the disease will prove : and if it prove the infection , that the house be shut up , and well watched night and day . keywords: constables; house; persons; tcp; text; towne; vpon cache: A17772.xml plain text: A17772.txt item: #37 of 105 id: A18917 author: Clapham, Henoch. title: An epistle discoursing vpon the present pestilence Teaching what it is, and how the people of God should carrie themselues towards God and their neighbour therein. Reprinted with some additions. By Henoch Clapham. date: 1603.0 words: 7858 flesch: 72 summary: God sometimes blesseth the first without the second , to shewe that he is not tyed to meanes . Our Naturians should neuer therefore promise or insinuate health and life by the second , but by putting people in the minde , that they must labour with God for satisfaction for the first . keywords: church; faith; god; good; hath; haue; lord; naturall; people; pestilence; plague; promise; sinne; vnto; vpon; word cache: A18917.xml plain text: A18917.txt item: #38 of 105 id: A18922 author: Clapham, Henoch. title: Henoch Clapham his demaundes and answeres touching the pestilence methodically handled, as his time and meanes could permit. date: 1604.0 words: 15087 flesch: 73 summary: Notes for div A18922-e3840 Iame●● . Passing by some inter-currentes ( which in som other my writings are layde downe ) he at the eleven weekes end convented me , thē signifying that I had bene imprisoned for teaching , That the plague was not inf●ctious ; as also for publishing An Epistle concerning the Pestilence ; and that in contempt of the booke of Orders for the Wednesdayes fast , authorized by the King. keywords: bee; cause; death; doctrine; doth; faith; farre; god; good; hath; haue; lord; man; nature; people; pestilence; plague; psalme; selues; som; stroke; thou; time; vnto; vpon; wicked; word cache: A18922.xml plain text: A18922.txt item: #39 of 105 id: A19448 author: Learned phisition. title: Present remedies against the plague Shewing sundrye preseruatiues for the same, by wholsome fumes, drinkes, vomits and other inward receits; as also the perfect cure (by implaisture) of any that are therewith infected. Now necessary to be obserued of euery housholder, to auoide the infection, lately begun in some places of this cittie. Written by a learned physition, for the health of his countrey. date: 1603.0 words: 3238 flesch: 73 summary: Good councell against the plague Learned phisition. 1603 Approx. Good councell against the plague Learned phisition. keywords: drinke; infection; plague; sore; tcp; text; vineger; vpon; water cache: A19448.xml plain text: A19448.txt item: #40 of 105 id: A19581 author: Crashaw, William, 1572-1626. title: Londons lamentation for her sinnes and complaint to the Lord her God. Out of which may bee pickt a prayer for priuate families, for the time of this fearefull infection. And may serue for a helpe to holinesse and humiliation for such as keepe the fast in priuate: together with a souereigne receipt against the plague. By W.C. pastor at White chappell. date: 1625.0 words: 13079 flesch: 56 summary: And that thou hast not onely betrothed vs vnto thy selfe in faithfulnesse and truth , but euen married thy selfe to vs , and though we wickedly , in our spirituall Idolatries , and other sinfull courses , cut off our selues from thee , and whorishly giuen our selues to others : yet most mercifully hast thou called vpon vs , to returne againe to thee , and thou wilt receiue vs : But miserable Catiffes that wee are , wee cānot turn to thée , we could of our selues fal away from thée , but of our selues , wee cannot returne home vnto thee : Cause vs therfore to returne , O Lord , and séeing thou so louest vs , as thou wilt not leaue vs , wee beseech thee also loose vs not , nor suffer vs good Lord to loose our selues , but renew our hearts towards thée , and cause vs to cry and mourne after thée , and say with Ephraim , turne thou vs and wee shall bee turned , conuert vs , and wee shall bee conuerted , Let it then command it selfe to promise and vow , that if thou for thy part , may by the power and mercie of God bee preserued , thou wilt performe some speciall seruice to him , his Church or Children , more then before : And let it command the said tongue and lips to vtter and publish the same promise , the better to bind it selfe to obedience . keywords: bee; doe; euen; god; good; hand; hath; haue; holy; lord; o lord; plague; thee; thou; thy; thée; vnto; vpon; wee; wée cache: A19581.xml plain text: A19581.txt item: #41 of 105 id: A20051 author: Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632. title: The blacke rod, and the vvhite rod (justice and mercie,) striking, and sparing, [brace] London. date: 1630.0 words: 6205 flesch: 77 summary: EEBO-TCP aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). To passe ouer the Volumes of the Graue , ( filled by Adam and his Children , ) in the first World ; And clasping-vp , those likewise which haue beene euer since , after the Deluge , in this second World : Let vs cast our Eyes onely at that Blacke Rod , and that white Rod , which from time to time , haue first smitten , and then spared , This Kingdome of Great Britaine . keywords: blacke; haue; king; number; plague; rod; tcp; text; thou; thy; time; vpon; weekes; world cache: A20051.xml plain text: A20051.txt item: #42 of 105 id: A20080 author: Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632. title: A rod for run-awayes Gods tokens, of his feareful iudgements, sundry wayes pronounced vpon this city, and on seuerall persons, both flying from it, and staying in it. Expressed in many dreadfull examples of sudden death ... By Tho. D. date: 1625.0 words: 9482 flesch: 73 summary: The braue Parlors , stately dining-Roomes , and rich Chambers to lye in , which many of our Citizens had here in London , are now turned to Hay-lofts , Apple-lofts , Hen-roosts , and Back-houses , no better then to keepe Hogges in : I doe not say in all places , but a number that are gone downe , and were lodged daintily heere , wish themselues at home , ( as complayning Letters testifie ) An ample Volume might be sent downe to you in the Country , of dismall and dreadfull Accidents ; not onely here within London , but more in the Townes round about vs. Death walkes in euery street : How many step out of their Beds into their Coffins ? And albeit , no man at any time is assured of life , yet no man ( within the memory of man ) was euer so neere death as now : because he that breakes his fast , is dead before dinner ; and many that dine , neuer eat supper more . keywords: bee; city; country; death; doe; gods; hath; haue; hee; houses; london; man; money; neuer; open; tcp; text; vpon cache: A20080.xml plain text: A20080.txt item: #43 of 105 id: A20094 author: Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632. title: The vvonderfull yeare. 1603 Wherein is shewed the picture of London, lying sicke of the plague. At the ende of all (like a mery epilogue to a dull play) certaine tales are cut out in sundry fashions, of purpose to shorten the liues of long winters nights, that lye watching in the darke for vs. date: 1603.0 words: 18243 flesch: 51 summary: With this learned Oration the Cobler was tutord : layd his singer on his mouth , and cried paucos palabros : he had sealed her pardon , and therefore bid her not feare : héervpon he named the malefactor , I could name him too , but that he shall liue to giue more Coblers heads the Bastinado . And told , that on such a night when he supt there ( for a Lord may sup with a clobler , that hath a pretty wench to his wife ) when the cloth , O treachero●s linnen ! was taken vp , and Menelaus had for a parting blow , giuen the other his fist : downe she lights ( this half-sharer ) opening the wicket , but not shutting him out of the wicket , but conu●is him into a byroom ( being the wardrob of old shooes and leather ) from whence the vnicorne cobler ( that dream● of no such spirits ) being ouer head and eares in sléepe , his snorting giuing the signe that he was cock-sure , softly out-steales sir Paris , and to Helenaes téeth prooued himselfe a true Troian . Ianus ( that beares two faces vnder one hood ) made a very mannerly lowe legge , and ( because he was the onely Porter at that gate ) presented vnto this King of the Moneths , all the New-yeares gifts , which were more in number , and more worth then those that are giuen to the great Turke , or the Emperour of Persia : on went Vertumnus in his lustie progresse , Priapus , Flora , the Dryades , and Ha●●adryades , with all the woodden rabble of those that drest Orchards & Gardens , perfuming all the wayes that he went , with the swéete Odours that breathed from flowers ; hearbes and trées , which now began to péepe out of prison : by vertue of which excellent aires , the skie got a most cleare completion ; lookte s●●g and smoothe , and had not so much as a wart st●●king on her face : the Sunne likewise was freshly and very richly apparelled in cloth of gold like a Bridegroome , and in stead of gilded Rosemary , the hornes of the Ramme , ( being the signe of that celestiall bride house where he lay , to be marryed to the Spring ) were not like your common hornes parcell gilt , but double double-gilt , with the liquid gold that melted from his beames , for ioy wereof the Larke sung at his windowe euery morning , the Nightingale euery nighte the Cuckooe ( like a single sole Fidler , that réeles from Tauerne to Tauerne ) plide it all the day long : Lambes friskte vp and downe in the vallies , Kids and Goates leapt too and fro on the Mountaines : Shepheards sat piping , country wenches singing : Louers made Sonnets for their Lasses , whilest they made Garlands for their Louers : And as the Country was frolike , so was the Citie mery : Oliue Trées ( which grow no where but in the Garden of peace ) stood ( as common as Béech does at Midsomer ) at euery mans doore , braunches of Palme were in euery mans hand : Stréetes were full of people , people full of ioy : euery house séemde to haue a Lorde of misrule in it , in euery house there was so much ●ollity : no Scritch-Owle frighted the silly Countryman at midnight , nor any Drum the Citizen at noone-day ; but all was more calme than a still water , all husht , as if the Spheres had bene playing in Consort : keywords: bene; cut; day; death; downe; earth; english; euen; euery; good; hand; hath; haue; head; heauen; himselfe; house; hée; king; life; london; lye; man; men; neuer; night; ouer; plague; set; siluer; stand; sée; tcp; text; thou; thy; time; vnder; vpon; water; world; yeare; ● ● cache: A20094.xml plain text: A20094.txt item: #44 of 105 id: A20529 author: Cleaver, Robert, 1561 or 2-ca. 1625. title: Foure godlie and fruitful sermons two preached at Draiton in Oxford-shire, at a fast, enioyned by authoritie, by occasion of the pestilence then dangerously dispearsed. Likewise two other sermons on the twelfth Psalme. VVhereunto is annexed a briefe tract of zeale. / By I. Dod. R. Cleauer. date: 1611.0 words: 35941 flesch: 70 summary: Now in that Dauid must haue such a sharpe corasiue to consume that proud flesh that had growne about his heart , by reason of his mightie forces , and the largenesse of his dominions , the Doctrine is , that it is a wonderfull hard thing to take downe the pride of mans heart : it is no small affliction that will doe it , as is plaine Iob 33. 14. &c : where is at large shewed , that God vseth all meanes , and that againe & againe , and yet men will not profit thereby : then he findes out the cause of it to be pride , verse . The second was the choyse that he made , absolutely passing ouer the famine , without so much as speaking of it , as knowing it to bee incomparablie the sharpest scourge of the three : ( for the Scripture saith , that they that are slaine by the sword , are better then they which are killed with hunger ) and rather also submitting himselfe to the Pestilence , which was more immediately the sword of God , from whom he expected mercie and sauour , then to the violence and sword of man : in whome what else in such a case is to be found , but crueltie and fiercenesse ? The third was the execution of that plague of the pestilence , which he had yeelded himselfe vnto : which is declared as well by the manner , as the minister of it : it being in so short a time , as in three dayes space , dispersed thorough the whole Land , from North to South , and ( though not affirmed , yet implied ) from East to West , Ierusalem onely excepted , as may appeare by the circumstance of the Text : and in this time seuenty thousand being destroyed ; which stroke was inflicted by the hand of an Angell , whome God had therevnto appointed , as minister and executioner of the same . keywords: bee; children; dauid; doe; doth; euen; euery; god; gods; good; hand; hath; haue; hearts; hee; himselfe; lord; man; matter; men; neuer; owne; people; pride; psal; saith; set; sinne; themselues; things; time; verse; vnto; vpon; vse; wee; word; zeale cache: A20529.xml plain text: A20529.txt item: #45 of 105 id: A20618 author: Donne, George. title: The signes that doe declare a person to be infected with the pestilence date: 1625.0 words: 1668 flesch: 68 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A20618) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 28395) keywords: books; eebo; english; tcp; text cache: A20618.xml plain text: A20618.txt item: #46 of 105 id: A22039 author: England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I) title: By the King. A proclamation for proroguing the parliament date: 1607.0 words: 1072 flesch: 65 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A22039) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 17734) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1136:19) By the King. keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text cache: A22039.xml plain text: A22039.txt item: #47 of 105 id: A22368 author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. title: By the King a proclamation for restraint of disorderly and vnnecessary resort to the court. date: 1625.0 words: 2133 flesch: 54 summary: By Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, Printed at London : THe Kings most Excellent Maiesty , hauing taken into His Princely consideration , the many inconueniences which may fall out by the vnlimited concourse of people of all sorts to His Court , or the Townes or Parishes neere the same , especially at this time , and in this season of the yeere , which growes euery day more dangerous for increasing the infection , already begun in the Citie of London , and Confines of the same ; And being graciously and prouidently carefull to take away and preuent all occasions tending thereunto , hath thought fit by aduice of His Priuie Councell , by this Proclamation to publish and declare his Royall pleasure and commandement concerning the same , That although his Maiestie cannot but conceiue great ioy and contentment , when His louing Subiects , out of their loyall and dutifull affections towards him , shall desire to see the Persons of Himselfe , or of his deare Consort the Queene , who is ( by Gods blessing ) shortly to come ouer into England ; yet , in his Princely care of His people , Hee is contented to dispence with those publike shewes of their zeale , chearefulnes , and alacritie at this time ▪ lest the present occasions of ioy and reioycing , should produce a contrary effect , by dispersing the Infection into other parts of the Realme , where his Maiestie shall keepe his Royall Court and residence . keywords: court; eebo; english; maiesties; tcp; text; time cache: A22368.xml plain text: A22368.txt item: #48 of 105 id: A22370 author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. title: By the King, a proclamation for restraint of disorderly and vnnecessary resort to the court date: 1625.0 words: 2125 flesch: 54 summary: THe Kings most Excellent Maiesty , hauing taken into His Princely consideration , the many inconueniences which may fall out by the vnlimited concourse of people of all sorts to His Court , or the Townes or Parishes neere the same , especially at this time , and in this season of the yeere , which growes euery day more dangerous for increasing the infection , already begun in the Citie of London , and Confines of the same ; And being graciously and prouidently carefull to take away and preuent all occasions tending thereunto , hath thought fit by aduice of His Priuie Councell , by this Proclamation to publish and declare his Royall pleasure and commandement concerning the same , That although his Maiestie cannot but conceiue great ioy and contentment , when His louing Subiects , out of their loyall and dutifull affections towards him , shall desire to see the Persons of Himselfe , or of his deare Consort the Queene , who is ( by Gods blessing ) shortly to come ouer into England ; yet , in his Princely care of His people , Hee is contented to dispence with those publike shewes of their zeale , chearefulnes , and alacritie at this time ▪ lest the present occasions of ioy and reioycing , should produce a contrary effect , by dispersing the Infection into other parts of the Realme , where his Maiestie shall keepe his Royall Court and residence . And therefore his Maiestie doth hereby straitly charge and command , That aswell in the Iourney , which Himselfe shortly intendeth to Douer in Kent , for the reception of his deare Consort , the Queene , at Her arriuall , as also in His , and Her Maiesties returne from thence , and in all other Iourneys and Progresses , which they or either of them shall make this Summer now ensuing , till they shall returne to a standing house in Winter , No person or persons whatsoeuer , not being thereunto called or appointed , or not hauing speciall cause of personall attendance at the Court for his Maiesties seruice , or for some necessary occasion of extremity concerning their owne estate , doe presume to follow , or resort to the Court with Petitions , or vpon other pretence , or vnto any Citie , Towne , Uillage , or priuate house within twelue miles of the same , as they tender his Maiesties displeasure , and will answere for the same , as contemners of this his Maiesties iust and Royall commandement . keywords: court; eebo; english; maiesties; tcp; text cache: A22370.xml plain text: A22370.txt item: #49 of 105 id: A22376 author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. title: By the King a proclamation for a publike, generall, and solemne fast. date: 1625.0 words: 1447 flesch: 59 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A22376) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 28580) keywords: eebo; england; english; tcp; text cache: A22376.xml plain text: A22376.txt item: #50 of 105 id: A22377 author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. title: By the King a proclamation concerning the adiournement of the Parliament. date: 1625.0 words: 1203 flesch: 64 summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). [1625] Arms with C R at top of sheet; text has historiated initial. keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text cache: A22377.xml plain text: A22377.txt item: #51 of 105 id: A22378 author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. title: By the King a proclamation for remouing the receipt of His Maiesties exchequer from Westminster to Richmond. date: 1625.0 words: 1230 flesch: 64 summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). line 1 of text ends conside-. keywords: exchequer; maiesties; tcp; text cache: A22378.xml plain text: A22378.txt item: #52 of 105 id: A22389 author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. title: By the King, a proclamation for the avoyding of all intercourse betweene His Maiesties Royall Court and the cities of London and Westminster, and places adioyning date: 1625.0 words: 1412 flesch: 62 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 27572) keywords: court; eebo; tcp; text cache: A22389.xml plain text: A22389.txt item: #53 of 105 id: A22395 author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. title: By the King a proclamation to declare His Maiesties pleasure, that a former restraint inioyned to the citizens of London, for repairing to faires for a time, is now set at libertie. date: 1625.0 words: 1399 flesch: 62 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: eebo; english; london; tcp; text cache: A22395.xml plain text: A22395.txt item: #54 of 105 id: A22544 author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. title: By the King a proclamation for the better direction of those who desire to repaire to the court for the cure of their disease, called, the kings euill. date: 1631.0 words: 1572 flesch: 64 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 28641) keywords: kings; maiestie; proclamation; tcp; text cache: A22544.xml plain text: A22544.txt item: #55 of 105 id: A22597 author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. title: By the King a proclamation to restraine the landing of men, or goods, out of such ships as shall come from the parts of France, or the low-countries now infected with the plague, till they haue warrant from the officers or farmours of His Maiesties customes. date: 1635.0 words: 1559 flesch: 60 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). By the King a proclamation to restraine the landing of men, or goods, out of such ships as shall come from the parts of France, or the low-countries now infected with the plague, till they haue warrant from the officers or farmours of His Maiesties customes. England and Wales. keywords: eebo; english; maiesties; tcp; text cache: A22597.xml plain text: A22597.txt item: #56 of 105 id: A22610 author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. title: Charles by the grace of God, king of England, Scotland, France & Ireland, defender of the faith, &c., to all and singular archbishops, bishops, archdeacons, deanes, and their officials ... to whome these presents shall come, greeting whereas we are credibly giuen to vnderstand, that by reason of grieuous visitation in this time of the great contagion of the plague amongst our poore subiects ... date: 1636.0 words: 2081 flesch: 53 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 28827) keywords: eebo; england; english; london; tcp; text cache: A22610.xml plain text: A22610.txt item: #57 of 105 id: A22700 author: England and Wales. Privy Council. title: Orders, thought meete by his Maiestie, and his Priuie Counsell, to be executed throughout the counties of this realme, in such townes, villages, and other places, as are, or may be hereafter infected with the plague, for the stay of further increase of the same Also, an aduise set downe by the best learned in physicke within this realme, containing sundry good rules and easie medicines, without charge to the meaner sort of people, aswel for the preseruation of his good subiects from the plague before infection, as for the curing and ordering of them after they shalbe infected. date: 1603.0 words: 6845 flesch: 58 summary: Orders, thought meete by his Maiestie, and his Priuie Counsell, to be executed throughout the counties of this realme, in such townes, villages, and other places, as are, or may be hereafter infected with the plague, for the stay of further increase of the same Also, an aduise set downe by the best learned in physicke within this realme, containing sundry good rules and easie medicines, without charge to the meaner sort of people, aswel for the preseruation of his good subiects from the plague before infection, as for the curing and ordering of them after they shalbe infected. England and Wales. Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 842) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1475-1640 ; 1136:23) Orders, thought meete by his Maiestie, and his Priuie Counsell, to be executed throughout the counties of this realme, in such townes, villages, and other places, as are, or may be hereafter infected with the plague, for the stay of further increase of the same Also, an aduise set downe by the best learned in physicke within this realme, containing sundry good rules and easie medicines, without charge to the meaner sort of people, aswel for the preseruation of his good subiects from the plague before infection, as for the curing and ordering of them after they shalbe infected. England and Wales. keywords: bee; infected; infection; item; iustices; orders; persons; places; plague; time; townes; water cache: A22700.xml plain text: A22700.txt item: #58 of 105 id: A22844 author: England and Wales. title: Certaine statutes especially selected, and commanded by his Maiestie to be carefully put in execution by all iustices, and other officers of the peace throughout the realme with his Maiesties proclamation for further direction for executing the same. Also certaine orders thought meete by his Maiestie and his Priuie Counsell, to bee put in execution, together with sundry good rules, preseruatiues, and medicines against the infection of the plague, set downe by the Colledge of the Physicians vpon his Maiesties speciall command: as also a decree of the Starre-Chamber, concerning buildings and in-mates. date: 1630.0 words: 29024 flesch: 42 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. Certaine statutes especially selected, and commanded by his Maiestie to be carefully put in execution by all iustices, and other officers of the peace throughout the realme with his Maiesties proclamation for further direction for executing the same. keywords: acte; aforesaid; bee; citie; corporate; countie; county; doe; euery; execution; good; haue; house; infected; infection; iustices; officers; ouerseers; parish; peace; persons; places; plague; present; realme; reliefe; rogues; sayd; sessions; shal; themselues; time; towne; vpon; vse cache: A22844.xml plain text: A22844.txt item: #59 of 105 id: A27641 author: Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605. title: A learned treatise of the plague wherein the two questions, whether the plague be infectious or no, and , whether and how farr it may be shunned of Christians by going aside, are resolved / written in Latine by the famous Theodore Beza Vezelian. date: 1665.0 words: 11182 flesch: 51 summary: Thus therefore they which think it not lawful to fly , do first of all Philosophically dispute against those that hold it not lawfull to tarry at all , they alledge out of Plato his Gorgias , That it is foolishnesse to fear Death ; and that he cannot seem to be a temperate person which flyeth Death , because it proceedeth of too much delight in life ; nor yet to be a just man , for that he which in the time of the Plague provideth for himself by running away , doth yield neither to God nor Man his due . But now in our times men have taken in hand to dispute this question upon this occasion , That many do so greatly fear this disease , and death which commonly followeth the same ▪ that forsaking all duties , not onely of Christians , but also of Humanity , they have greatly increased the very wrath of God , which is the chief cause of this Sicknesse : and there hath in a manner been no * stay or lett in them ; but where this great misery hath happened , the bonds of Man's fellowships being once broken , it is much to be wondered at , that all Mankinde hath not perished and been destroyed . keywords: angels; causes; death; doth; god; good; hath; infection; man; nature; plague; self; things cache: A27641.xml plain text: A27641.txt item: #60 of 105 id: A30644 author: Burton, Henry, 1578-1648. title: A most godly sermon preached at St. Albons in Woodstreet on Sunday last being the 10 of October, 1641 : shewing the necessity of selfe-denyall and humiliation by prayer and fasting before the Lord in regard of the present plague we now lye under : which God in his good time remove from amongst us / by ... Henry Burton. date: 1641.0 words: 2828 flesch: 81 summary: Vse 1. To condemn all Popish Charity , and many which they call good works , instead of denying themselvs in those works , they deny Christ ; for in those works , they say they deserve the Kingdome of Heaven . Vse 2. To condemn another sort of carnall profane men that build their salvation on common duties , works of morality ; who say that they doe all men right ( though perhaps they are compelled so to doe ) this overthrowes the Doctrine of Christ , this is not to deny themselves , but to deny Christ . keywords: children; christ; parents; selfe; text cache: A30644.xml plain text: A30644.txt item: #61 of 105 id: A30931 author: Barker, Richard, Sir. title: Consilium anti-pestilentiale, or, Seasonable advice concerning sure, safe, specifick, and experimented medicines both for the preservation from, and cure of, this present plague offered for the publick benefit of this afflicted nation by Richard Barker. date: 1665.0 words: 4443 flesch: 58 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. keywords: city; glass; half; medicines; present; spirit; tcp; text; time cache: A30931.xml plain text: A30931.txt item: #62 of 105 id: A32388 author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. title: By the King, a proclamation concerning the prorogation of the Parliament date: 1665.0 words: 1276 flesch: 59 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A32388) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 48111) keywords: eebo; parliament; tcp; text cache: A32388.xml plain text: A32388.txt item: #63 of 105 id: A32412 author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. title: By the King, a proclamation for a generall fast throughout this realm of England date: 1665.0 words: 1478 flesch: 60 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 48114) keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text cache: A32412.xml plain text: A32412.txt item: #64 of 105 id: A32613 author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. title: By the King, a proclamation prohibiting the keeping of Bartholomew Fair, and Sturbridge Fair date: 1665.0 words: 1394 flesch: 60 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A32613) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 108045) keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text cache: A32613.xml plain text: A32613.txt item: #65 of 105 id: A32616 author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. title: By the King, a proclamation prohibiting the keeping of the fair at Bristol, commonly called St. Paul's Fair date: 1665.0 words: 1298 flesch: 61 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: eebo; fair; tcp; text cache: A32616.xml plain text: A32616.txt item: #66 of 105 id: A36186 author: Cock, Thomas. title: Advice for the poor by way of cure & caution ... by T. Cocke. date: 1665.0 words: 4460 flesch: 61 summary: (5) Those that can make use of an Apothecary , the best way will be to anoint the swelling with Oil of Roses , Lillies , or Unguent of Althea ; and then put upon the Tumor , the Plaister of Diacalum cum Gummis , or Mr. Dixons Plaister . But if there be any sharp or pricking pains about the Groynes , &c. or the Disease lye much in the Head ▪ or hath assaulted and weakened the heart , then only Sweat ; and at the some time apply outwardly Warm , to the Fore-head , Temples , and Heart , Bole Armoniack , and Oyl of water Lillies of each one penny worth , with as much Vinegar as will make it a soft Paste 〈◊〉 ●f you add a little Camphere and Salt Peter it will be the better . keywords: drink; hath; paper; people; plague; tcp; text; use; vinegar cache: A36186.xml plain text: A36186.txt item: #67 of 105 id: A36329 author: Doolittle, Thomas, 1632?-1707. title: Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life, in and after a time of great mortality, by a wasting plague (anno 1665) answered in XIII directions / by Tho. Doolitel. date: 1666.0 words: 79471 flesch: 75 summary: Sin doth dispose the heart to sin , and to depart from God more and more , Heb. 3.12 . Suppress the first motions of sin : crush this Cockatrice in the Egge : do not dally with secret Temptations unto Sin : abstain from every appearance of secret sins : If you are too much given to contemplative Uncleanness , avoid such things as may occasion it , as beholding of Objects , &c. 9. Get a deep Impression of Gods kindness and mercy into thy soul : Many of Gods Mercies to thee are secret Mercies , which none can infallibly see in thee , but thy self : as Grace , and the love of God shed abroad in thy heart : and , let the sense of Gods secret love to thee keep thee from secret sinnings against God , then wilt thou say with Joseph , when he was tempted to secret uncleanness , Gen. 39.7 , 9 , 10. How can I do this great wickedness and sin against God ? 10. keywords: body; children; christ; come; conscience; dead; death; duties; evil; family; god; god doth; gods; good; grace; hath; heart; holy; house; life; lord; love; man; men; mercy; new; people; plague; psal; secret; self; sickness; sin; sins; soul; thee; things; thou; thy; time; unto; vers; walk; wicked; work; world cache: A36329.xml plain text: A36329.txt item: #68 of 105 id: A37471 author: T. D. title: Food and physick for every householder & his family during the time of the plague very useful, both for the free and the infected, and necessary for all persons in what condition or quality soever : together with several prayers and meditations before, in, and after infection, very needful in all infectious and contagious times, and fit as well for the country as the city / published by T.D. for the publick good. date: 1665.0 words: 4751 flesch: 71 summary: EEBO-TCP aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). Plague -- England -- London. keywords: drink; good; infection; plague; quantity; tcp; text; time cache: A37471.xml plain text: A37471.txt item: #69 of 105 id: A37944 author: Edwards, 17th cent. title: A treatise concerning the plague and the pox discovering as well the meanes how to preserve from the danger of these infectious contagions, as also how to cure those which are infected with either of them. date: 1652.0 words: 37043 flesch: 76 summary: THere are divers causes whereof this disease may proceed , as sundry Writers doe alledge , as by over great and unnaturall heat and drought , by great rain and inundations of waters , or by great store of rotten and stinking bodies , both of men and beasts , lying upon the face of the earth unburied , as in the time of warres hath been seen , which doth so corrupt the air , as that thereby our Corn , Fruits , Hearbs , and Waters , which we daily use for our food and sustenance , are infected : also it may come by some stinking dunghils , filthy and standing pooles of water , and unsavory smels which are near the places where we dwell , or by thrusting a great company of people into a close , narrow , or streight room , as most commonly we see in Ships , common Gaoles , and in narrow and close lanes and streets , where many people doe dwell together , and the places not orderly kept clean and sweet . Also when we see rivers of water to overflow without any manifest cause , or suddenly vanish away and become dry : And when clear well-springs do suddenly become foule and troubled . keywords: ana; bloud; body; boyle; cause; cold; come; cure; day; disease; doe; doth; drachm; drink; fine; following; good; half; handfull; hath; heart; iiii; infected; leaves; morning; ounce; place; plague; powder; pox; red; roses; sick; sirrup; sweat; thereof; thereto; time; use; vinegar; warm; water; white; wine cache: A37944.xml plain text: A37944.txt item: #70 of 105 id: A38323 author: England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords. title: An order of the Lords, for the better direction of the overseers appoynted in the severall parishes of the city of Oxford, against the spreading of the infection of the plague. date: 1644.0 words: 1400 flesch: 78 summary: Holliwell Parish M. Baily . This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A38323 of text R40506 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E2833). keywords: house; overseers; text cache: A38323.xml plain text: A38323.txt item: #71 of 105 id: A39483 author: England and Wales. title: By the Lords and other His Majesties commissioners an order for the observance and execution of the statute made for the reliefe and ordering of persons infected with the plague. date: 1645.0 words: 1309 flesch: 64 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A39483 of text R43145 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E929). By the Lords and other His Majesties commissioners an order for the observance and execution of the statute made for the reliefe and orderin England and Wales 1645 946 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 C The rate of 11 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. keywords: majesties; oxford; persons; text cache: A39483.xml plain text: A39483.txt item: #72 of 105 id: A42008 author: Greene, Thomas, 1634?-1699. title: A lamentation taken up for London that late flourishing city, a bitter, yea a bitter lamentation over all her inhabitants yet living within and about her borders, and over all her rulers and mighty men, who are fled from her as from a murtherer, with good counsel and advice, from the spirit of the Lord to all, that they may turn unto him before the vials of his wrath be poured out for their utter destruction. By a lover of truth and righteousness: Thomas Greene. date: 1665.0 words: 3879 flesch: 36 summary: This was signified unto me by the Spirit of the Lord when I was in his dreadful fear , overshadowed with his Heavenly power , and I waited to see it effected , or a return to the Lord by cealing from unrighteousness , which most of all I desired , that he might have diverted his intended Judgments ; But Oh how hast thou dishonoured his name , and walked after thy own hearts lusts , as those that have forgotten the Lord dayes without number , and hast not humbled thy self before him , but hast regarded iniquity , and walked in cruelty , against the Lord and his poor people , and hast walked proudly , so that many of thy Inhabitants scarcely knew what to eat , or to drink , or what to put on , and yet a professing people , having on you the name of Christians , but are seen of all those whose eyes are open to be in the nature of Heathens , Turks , or Infidels , who are not found in the nature of Christ , who came not to destroy mens lives but to save them ; but on the contrary thy Rulers and Magistrates with their attendance , have been found persecuting and imprisoning , knocking down , and wounding even some unto death a peaceable people that fear the Lord , that he hath raised up in these last dayes to be as signes and wonders , whose residence and dwelling is amongst you ; who have but testified against unrighteousness , and assembled themselves together as the antient Christians in the dayes of old , who feared the Lord , and thought upon his Name ; and when all this Cruelty would not do nor bring them down , whom God hath raised up ; then was invented in thee another way , thou didst see thy pomp and greatness would do thee no good while these people called Quakers were among you , their Laws being divers from thy Laws , their Worship to thy Worship ; then thou hast concluded with the rest of the Rulers of the Land , even as Haman who said , it 's not for the Kings profit to let them live among us ; then this cruel Edict was invented in thy Borders to make such a Law as thou might be sure to find these people transgressors of , that thou mightest say as those unworthy Jewes , who said , Wee have a Law , and by our Law Christ ought to die . Oh this your Law will not excuse you before the Lord who seeth your insides , and will judge you according as your works are , not by the sight of the eye nor by the hearing of the ear , but he will enter into righteous judgement with you , for he is determined to plead with all flesh to bring down the haughty , and to lay the lofty low ; and for all thy transgressions and cruelties God is now risen to plead with thee ; for thou hast been the womb in the which cruelty without mercy hath been conceived , thy Rulers with their Allies have been examples to all cruel minded men thorough the Nation , therefore must thou drink a bitter cup , and into thy hand hath the Lord first put it ; for when thou began to banish ( by that late devised Law ) those people out of the Land that feared the Lord , and durst not mak shipwrack of their faith , and of a good conscience ; then did the Lord begin with thee , and poured out his Plagues upon very few , as thou beganest first to banish two or three of the people of the Lord ; keywords: hath; lord; people; tcp; text; thee; thou cache: A42008.xml plain text: A42008.txt item: #73 of 105 id: A42397 author: Garencières, Theophilus, 1610-1680. title: A mite cast into the treasury of the famous city of London being a brief and methodical discourse of the nature, causes, symptomes, remedies and preservation from the plague, in this calamitous year, 1665 : digested into aphorismes / by Theophilvs Garencieres ... date: 1665.0 words: 4514 flesch: 61 summary: In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. The general aim of EEBO-TCP is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic English-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in EEBO. keywords: cast; cure; eebo; english; hath; nature; plague; symptomes; tcp; text cache: A42397.xml plain text: A42397.txt item: #74 of 105 id: A42850 author: Gadbury, John, 1627-1704. title: London's deliverance predicted in a short discourse shewing the cause of plagues in general, and the probable time (God not contradicting the course of second causes) when the present pest may abate, &c. / by John Gadbury. date: 1665.0 words: 14603 flesch: 63 summary: But in November when Venus came to the Trine of the Moon , and Jupiter to the Ascendant and 〈◊〉 the Trine of the Sun , and Venus also to the Ascen●ant , &c. the Plague began to cease its fury , insomuch ●hat in the last week of December , there dyed thereof ●ut seventy four ; there having in one week in Septem●er before , dyed above 3000 persons . Minus afficit 〈◊〉 ●●tigatio , quam cogitatio . keywords: air; causes; contagion; fear; god; great; hath; jupiter; mars; persons; pestilence; place; plague; reason; saturn; sun; time; years; ● ● cache: A42850.xml plain text: A42850.txt item: #75 of 105 id: A44061 author: Hodges, Nathaniel, 1629-1688. title: Vindiciæ medicinæ & medicorum: or An apology for the profession and professors of physick In answer to the several pleas of illegal practitioners; wherein their positions are examined, their cheats discovered, and their danger to the nation asserted. As also an account of the present pest, in answer to a letter. By Nath. Hodges, M.D. Coll. Lond. date: 1666.0 words: 49312 flesch: -6 summary: I need not spend time in running over more qualifications both of Physicians and Chymists , in which they also agree ; by all which it is very apparant that Physicians are best capacitated to be Chymists , to whom also the Spagyrick Art is more advantageous then to any others who spend their time and pains in it : Curiosity and Covetousness are the general ends propounded by all not engaged in the Profession of Physick , moving them to erect Laboratories , that by the help of Chymical Experiments , they may satisfie their earnest desire either of Knowledg or Profit , but upon neither account can these be equally benefited thereby as Physicians , not they who seek only to gratifie their Curiosity , because these rather hunt after Rarities in Nature then what is vulgar , and then most applaud their happy discoveries when some strange and unexpected effect doth occur ; Quod Naturae ludus illis miraculum ; The sportings of Nature delight them most : And indeed these may at pleasure , sever , mix , make and marr , behaving themselves lasciviously towards Nature and her divine mysteries , and at length if these err , their deceptions are not dangerous , so long as their innocent affectation of curiosity is confined to try conclusions on vile and ignoble bodies , which are then dignified when they afford real discoveries of new truths , in subserviency to the good and welfare of Mankind : But Physicians are not allowed liberty to pick and choose their work , they difference not the subjects on which they operate so much by their disguised variety , as estimate them according to the true and powerful vertues they afford for the recovery of their Patients ; being also obliged to more accurateness then the others , for if they mistake in dissolving the intimate closure of bodies on which they work , in stead of separating by such a preparation between what is sound and the peccant matter , they possibly may part the neer embraces of Soul and Body : Physicians then being satisfied that their enterprizes in Chymistry relating to their practice be rational in the discharge of their weighty employment , more benefit thereby then those Indagators invited to be Spectators only of Natures curiosities . Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. keywords: account; ancients; answer; apothecaries; art; author; authority; bishops; blood; bodies; body; business; care; cause; chymical; chymistry; colledg; conclude; condition; cure; death; diseases; doth; empericks; experience; fit; good; hands; hath; help; hippocrates; knowledg; like; malignity; matter; means; medicaments; medicines; nature; new; non; number; opinion; order; parts; patients; people; persons; pest; pestilential; physicians; physick; place; plague; power; practice; preparations; present; profession; pseudochymists; publick; quam; qui; reason; relation; remedies; respect; right; science; self; set; skill; society; statute; subject; things; time; universal; use; vel; vertues; way; work; world cache: A44061.xml plain text: A44061.txt item: #76 of 105 id: A45206 author: Hunter, Josiah, minister in York. title: The dreadfulness of the plague. Or A sermon preached in the parish-church of St. John the Evangelist, December 6th. being a day of public fasting. By Jos. Hunter M.A. and minister in York date: 1666.0 words: 9026 flesch: 73 summary: It is a ▪ Pestilent Doctrine therefore to a●●irm , that none who believe in God , and love him sincerely , can dye of the Plague : it is very t●u● , the dying of the pl gu● shall be no more prejudicial to them , in respect of their salvation , than the dying of any other d●●th ; All things ( and therefore the Plague ) work together for good to them that love God : but the sentence of j●s●ification , Gods acceptation of them into favour , gives not Believers an immunity from any disease , but their persons are still subj●ct unto those diseases which the nature is : and it is very soundly observed by one Mr. ●●mford ( who writ a little T●e●●ise the la●● great Plague , but this , at London ) that God by suffering good men to dye of the Plague , glorifies both his justice and his wisd●me ; his justice among the wicked , in giving them cause to say , If God spare not the green tree , what shall be done to the dry ? 2006-03 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2006-03 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-04 Ali Jakobson Sampled and proofread 2007-04 Ali Jakobson Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion PErlegi Concionem ●anc , nec quid in eâ uspiam deprehendi , quod Pietati promovendae plurimum non inserviat ; proindeque dignam censui , quae Imprimatur . keywords: cause; god; gods; good; hath; judgment; man; men; plague; psal; text; time; wrath; ● ● cache: A45206.xml plain text: A45206.txt item: #77 of 105 id: A46659 author: Alessio, Piemontese, b. ca. 1471. aut title: A collection of seven and fifty approved receipts good against the plague Taken out of the five books of that renowned Dr. Don Alexes secrets, for the benefit of the poorer sort of people of these nations. By W. J. gent. date: 1665.0 words: 8530 flesch: 64 summary: Take an Ounce of Aloes Epaticum , half an Ounce of Mirrhe , half an Ounce of Saforne beaten into powder , sift the Aloes and Mirrhe together , then steep and soake the Saforne , or wash it with Whine wine that is very strong , so that it be like sauce , put then the other powder to it , and mixe all well together , if need require you may put more Wine to it so make thereof a paste , and so make pills of the same , but if you will have it very strong put to every Ounce half an Ounce of Diagridum and half an Ounce of Camphire , Mr. Francis Albert took three eight parts of the said pills without Diagridum , soaking them in good Wine and gave them to his patient as soon as he could and caused him to sweat much in his bed and by sweating disolved the venome . CHAP. TAke the Ripe berries of a Baytree , then pill off the black skin that is upon them , beat them into powder with a little Salt , and as soon as the party perceiveth himself infected with the Plague , and that he begin to have a hot Fevor , he must take a spoonfull of the said powder , mixt with a little Vineger and water , let him heat it a little and drinke it , and then covering himself warm sleep , sleeping soundly by Gods help he shall be cured in a short time , but if the Fevor come with a cold , instead of Vineger he must take wine , and then do as is said before , this hath been experimented on many in the last great Plague time . CHAP. keywords: chap; dram; drink; half; ounce; patient; plague; powder; quantity; red; time; vineger; water; white; wine cache: A46659.xml plain text: A46659.txt item: #78 of 105 id: A47218 author: Kemp, W. (William) title: A brief treatise of the nature, causes, signes, preservation from, and cure of the pestilence collected by W. Kemp ... date: 1665.0 words: 28237 flesch: 51 summary: Plague -- Early works to 1800. Plague -- Diagnosis -- Early works to 1800. keywords: air; body; cure; death; diseases; doth; drink; fear; fire; good; half; hath; heart; humours; infection; life; like; medicines; nature; ounce; persons; pestilence; plague; powder; reason; self; sick; spirits; things; time; use; vinegar; water cache: A47218.xml plain text: A47218.txt item: #79 of 105 id: A47273 author: Kephale, Richard. title: Medela pestilentiae wherein is contained several theological queries concerning the plague, with approved antidotes, signes and symptoms : also an exact method for curing that epidemicial distemper, humbly presented to the Right Honourable and Right Worshipful the lord mayor and sheriffs of the city of London. date: 1665.0 words: 25515 flesch: 65 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. If you bee costive and bound in body , you may take a Glister made with a little boyled hony , and a little fine powder of salt , and so taken in at the fundament , and kept till it move a stoole . keywords: air; bee; blood; bodies; body; cause; dram; drink; fire; god; gods; good; half; hath; heart; hee; house; humours; infection; judgement; lord; man; means; men; morning; ounce; people; persons; place; plague; rue; sorrel; time; vinegar; water; way; wee; world cache: A47273.xml plain text: A47273.txt item: #80 of 105 id: A50491 author: Mead, Matthew, 1630?-1699. title: Solomon's prescription for the removal of the pestilence, or, The discovery of the plague of our hearts, in order to the healing of that in our flesh by M.M. date: 1665.0 words: 50020 flesch: 60 summary: What have I to do with thee , Oh man , whoever thou art ? I come not against thee this day , but against Sin , wherewith I have war ; for God commanded me to this work . Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the Heavens . keywords: cause; christ; church; come; day; death; god; gods; good; hand; hath; heart; hell; judgments; leave; life; lord; love; man; men; peace; people; plague; reason; religion; self; selves; sin; sins; souls; thee; things; thou; thy; time; way; wilt; work; world; wrath cache: A50491.xml plain text: A50491.txt item: #81 of 105 id: A52520 author: E. N. title: London's plague-sore discovered. or, Some serious notes and suitable considerations upon the present visitation at London wherein is something by way of lamentation, information, expostulation, exhortation and caution : whereunto is annexed, A never-failing antidote against the plague. date: 1665.0 words: 2502 flesch: 74 summary: Then learn this lesson from it you that can , 'T is vain to trust in any mortal man , For if in danger thou his help shalt crave , Alas ! poor worm ! himself he cannot save . Examine well , and thou maist find it so ; Sin is the cause of this thy present WO , And therefore now , while it is call'd , to day Repent , and turn to God without delay : Break off thy Sins ; Let Righteousness take place , It may be yet thou mayst partake of Grace ; keywords: god; london; plague; tcp; text; thou; thy cache: A52520.xml plain text: A52520.txt item: #82 of 105 id: A53403 author: City of London (England). Court of Aldermen. title: Orders conceived and published by the Lord Major and aldermen of the city of London, concerning the infection of the plague date: 1665.0 words: 3664 flesch: 59 summary: In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. THat the sweeping and filth of houses be daily carried away by the Rakers , and that the Raker shall give notice of his coming by the blowing of a Horn as heretofore hath been done . keywords: city; house; infection; london; person; tcp; text cache: A53403.xml plain text: A53403.txt item: #83 of 105 id: A56009 author: Gadbury, John, 1627-1704. title: The prophecie of one of His Maiesties chaplains, concerning the plague and black-patches with Mr. Gadburies happy and joyful predictions, for the decrease of the plague both in the city and suburbs; the time when; the manner how; by God's permission, and according to natural causes; the effects and motion of the planets, and what every week may produce for the thrice-happy and welcome abatement of this sad and dismal pestilence; and the city of London to be wholly acquit thereof about (or before) Christmas. date: 1665.0 words: 3084 flesch: 58 summary: From whence also is observable the Causes producing it ; Such as are the Position of the Heavens and the Conjunction of Mars and Saturn ; as the Learned Mr Gadbury hath most judiciously set forth in those Memorable Predictions hereunto ●nnexed . hath these words : When we see young Children flock themselves together in Companies , and then will fain some o● their Company to be dead amongst them , and so will solemnize the B 〈…〉 rt , this is a token which hath been well observed in o●r Ag● to fore-shew great Mortality at hand . keywords: god; hath; london; plague; tcp; text; time cache: A56009.xml plain text: A56009.txt item: #84 of 105 id: A57156 author: Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676. title: A sermon preached before the peers in the Abby Church at Westminster, November 7, 1666 being a day of solemn humiliation for the continuing pestilence / by Edward Lord Bishop of Norwich. date: 1666.0 words: 10721 flesch: 54 summary: Of this sort was that unhappy Controversie in the dayes of Pope Victor , between the Roman and Asiatick Churches , touching the time of Easter , who though former Bishops of Rome had , notwithstanding the different observations in that Case , held intimate fellowship with the Asian Bishops , did out of excess of Passion , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , as Socrates expresseth it , Excommunicate all the Asian Churches , and made a dolefull disturbance in the Church of Christ ; upon which occasion , the forenamed Historian hath a grave Discourse , to shew how several Churches did differ from one another in Matters Ritual , and yet retained firm Unity and Communion still . 3. The Conspicuousness thereof , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , let it be really upon all occasions manifested , for the Honour of Christ , and Credit of Religion . keywords: apostle; christ; church; glory; god; good; gospel; grace; hand; hath; lord; love; man; meekness; men; moderation; text; things cache: A57156.xml plain text: A57156.txt item: #85 of 105 id: A58209 author: M. R. title: The meanes of preventing, and preserving from, and curing of the most contagious disease, called the plague with the pestilential feaver, and the fearfull symptomes, and accidents, incident thereunto. Also some prayers, and meditations upon death. date: 1665.0 words: 7815 flesch: 66 summary: The fourth signe of the Plague , is the Mark or Spots , called Gods Tokens , but not alwaies certaine signs of the Plague , nor of death to the Patient , as some ignorant Nurses , nay most Nurses imagine , for many have Spots of several forms and colours when venomous Feaversreigne , and yet not the Plague ; againe , many have suspicious and fearful Spots , which the Vulgar terme Gods Tokens , and recover , and live many years after to Gods glory ; these Spots are upon some bodies like Flea-bitings , in others larger , in some as bigge as a penny , their kindes in some like Freckles , sometimes found upon the Breast , sometimes upon the Back , the Armes , and Leggs of the Patient , they are in colour blewish , and of a sad red ; sometimes of a lead colour , and of a purple colour , they are without paine , but many times the very sight of them to the Patient causeth fear , but let me desire the Patient to fear his sins more , and use the means , and by the help of God you may doe well . Now who knows which of these deaths are appointed for him ? Now the Lord prepare us to meet him , for unto God the Lord belongs the Issues of Death , Psal . 68.20 . keywords: bee; death; disease; god; good; half; hast; hath; lord; man; plague; soul; thee; thou; thy cache: A58209.xml plain text: A58209.txt item: #86 of 105 id: A59949 author: Sherwood, Thomas, Practitioner in physick. title: The charitable pestmaster, or, The cure of the plague conteining a few short and necessary instructions how to preserve the body from infection of the plagve as also to cure those that are infected : together with a little treatise concerning the cure of the small pox : published for the benefit of the poore of this city and not unmeet for the rich / by Thomas Shervvood ... date: 1641.0 words: 5318 flesch: 61 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A59949 of text R6113 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing S3416). Wherefore I have often said , that a skilfull Physician by watching his time shall doe more with à cup of warme drinke in the cure of the Plague , or any Fever , then the ignorant shall do with all the excellent Medicines that are in the Apothecaries Shop . keywords: body; cure; hath; medicines; pestilence; plague; pox; sick; text cache: A59949.xml plain text: A59949.txt item: #87 of 105 id: A61164 author: Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679. title: The plague of Athens which hapned in the second year of the Peloponnesian Warr / first described in Greek by Thucydides, then in Latin by Lucretius, now attempted in English by Tho. Sprat. date: 1667.0 words: 8600 flesch: 75 summary: For that which a man before would dissemble , and not acknowledge to be done for voluptuousness , he durst now do freely , seeing before his Eyes such quick revolution , of the rich dying , and men worth nothing inheriting their Estates ; insomuch as they justified a speedy fruition of their Goods , even for their pleasure , as Men that thought they held their Lives but by the day . They had not been many dayes in Attica , when the Plague first began amongst the Athenians , said also to have seized formerly on divers other parts , as about Lemnos , and elsewhere ; but so great a Plague , and Mortality of Men , was never remembred to have hapned in any place before . keywords: air; athens; death; disease; doth; english; gods; kind; life; man; men; new; plague; self; tcp; text; thee; thou cache: A61164.xml plain text: A61164.txt item: #88 of 105 id: A62435 author: Starkey, George, 1627-1665. aut title: Loimologia A consolatory advice, and some brief observations concerning the present pest. By Geo. Thomson, Dr of physick. date: 1665.0 words: 8120 flesch: 49 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. Yet what mundified Sulphurs can perform , I shall in part satisfie the more ingenious , by the benefit that may accrue to Mankinde from the use of the three fore-mentioned Remedies of the inferiour Tribe , which principally consist of Vegetal and Mineral Sulphurs well purified . keywords: body; disease; galenists; good; hath; pest; plague; present; remedies; tcp; text; thing; time; world cache: A62435.xml plain text: A62435.txt item: #89 of 105 id: A62436 author: Thomson, George, 17th cent. title: Loimotomia, or, The pest anatomized in these following particulars, Viz. 1. The material cause of the pest, 2. The efficient cause of the pest, 3. The subject part of the pest, 4. The signs of the pest, 5. An historical account of the dissections of a pestilential body by the author, and the consequences thereof, 6. Reflections and observations on the fore-said dissection, 7. Directions preservative and curative against the pest : together with the authors apology against the calumnies of the Galenists, and a word to Mr. Nath. Hodges, concerning his late Vindiciae medicinae / by George Thomson. date: 1666.0 words: 31627 flesch: 36 summary: In all parts I took notice of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , a great coagulation , and some small colliquation of juyces , except in the Stomack , where this Negro liquor did flote without any Concretion or Coaction ; whereby I gather , That the kindly and familiar Ferment of the Stomack , made to dissolve and open any hard tough food , and to change it into a fluxible white Chile , that the nutritive and excrementitious parts may be the better separated , being now degenerate and hostile , did still retain a property like the former , though tending to Ruine , tabefying and colliquating what it touched , and changing it into a black , instead of a white juyce . When I meditate seriously upon the extraordinary occasion that brought this Truculent Disease upon me , when I contemplate its Magnitude , Malignity , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , the swiftness of its motion , those direful Symptoms and Products that appeared ; when I consider that Three besides my self were sick at the same time , of the same Malady , in the same House , the Landlady one of the Three , being with Child , miscarrying , and that all of us recovered by the same means blessed from Heaven , I cannot but heartily magnifie the good Creator of all things , that hath provided such potent Medicines for the Restauration of man fallen from his Sanity , and withall be firmly resolved concerning the admirable efficacy of Chymical preparations , abhorring the laziness , perversness , and Ingratitude of those that still resist the Truth , obstinately maintaining their own destructive Principles , Method and Medicines . CHAP. keywords: act; air; archeus; blood; bodies; body; bufo; cause; day; disease; doth; ferment; galenists; good; hand; hath; helmont; idea; kind; length; life; man; manner; mans; matter; nature; observation; parts; person; pest; power; poyson; reason; remedies; self; sickness; skin; spirit; stomack; things; time; truth; world cache: A62436.xml plain text: A62436.txt item: #90 of 105 id: A64521 author: Tabor, John. title: Seasonable thoughts in sad times being some reflections on the warre, the pestilence, and the burning of London, considered in the calamity, cause, cure / by Joh. Tabor. date: 1667.0 words: 24169 flesch: 72 summary: But then the startling and astonishing news of the Cities Conflagration , hurried my Muse to a new wrack of tormenting griefs , rending me as many others for a time capable of nothing but to stand in the way for News , wherein for some days together we still met with Job's messengers , with sad tidings of increasing misery : till at length occurring the joyful report of the miraculous extinguishing of the Flames , and unexpected Preservation of the unconsumed part of the City and Suburbs , my mind became more sedate and quiet , and my Muse set her self to reflect on this woe as the former , not without some thoughts of Publication , imagining this had revived mens sense of Gods just displeasure , and might render them capable of remorse for their sins , procuring these dire effects of it in such a dreadful succession of woes : then purposing to discover all our sins as cause of our sufferings , and knowing that by the Law is the knowledge of sin , I run over the Law of God in my thoughts , and observed how sins of all sorts against every Commandment , and others more directly against the Gospel abound among us , so that our sins being found so great , and numerous , we may not wonder our sufferings have been so many and calamitous : But I had rather we , and they in Peace Might live , and War might from all Nations cease Had not Astraea left the Earth , and rage Possest mens bosomes in this Iron age : Had not sin first divided men from God , Then from themselves , scattering all abroad To seek new Countries , all had still been one Language , and People , letting Warr alone . keywords: blood; cause; church; city; day; death; doth; dutch; english; fear; fire; foes; glory; god; gods; good; hath; hearts; heav'n; home; king; land; lie; london; lord; men; people; plague; prince; sea; sin; sins; souls; think; time; war; way; woe cache: A64521.xml plain text: A64521.txt item: #91 of 105 id: A64990 author: Vincent, Thomas, 1634-1678. title: God's terrible voice in the city by T.V. date: 1667.0 words: 67586 flesch: 53 summary: But if houses for sin alone were sunke , and fuel for lust only were consumed , it would not be so much ; but the houses also for Gods worship , ( which formerly were a bulwark against the fire , partly through the walls about them , partly through the fervent prayers within them ) now are devoured by the flames , and the habitations of many who truly fear God , have not escaped ; and in the places where God hath been served , and his servants have lived ; now nettles are growing ; owles are screeching ; thieves and cut-throats are lurking : A sad face there is now in the ruinous part of London : and terrible hath the voice of the Lord been , which hath been crying , yea roaring in the City by these dreadful judgments of the Plague and Fire , which he hath brought upon us . It was an extraordinary hand of God which brought the plague , of which no natural cause can be assigned , why it should be so great that year , more then in former years , but that sin was grown to greater heighth ; and that a fire should prevaile , against all attempts to quench it , to burn down the City , and that judgment just following upon the heels of the other ; what reason can be assigned , but that Englands sins , and Gods displeasure hath been extraordinary ; God is a God of patience , and it is not a light thing will move him ; he is slow to anger , it must needs be then some great provocation which makes him so furious ; he is highly offended , before he lifts up his hand ; and he is exceedingly incens'd , before his anger breaks forth into such a flame ; for my part , I verily think , if it had not been for the crying abominations of the times , which are not chiefly to be limited to the City of London , and if the means of Gods prescription , according to the Rule of his Word , which England sometime could , had by England been made use of , that both Plague and Fire had been prevented . keywords: anger; away; christ; city; day; death; evil; fall; fear; fire; god; god doth; gods; good; gospel; hand; hath; hearts; heaven; hell; houses; judgements; land; london; london hath; lord; lord god; love; man; people; persons; place; plague; self; selves; sin; sins; spirit; things; thou; thy; time; voice; world; wrath cache: A64990.xml plain text: A64990.txt item: #92 of 105 id: A65193 author: J. V. title: Golgotha; or, A looking-glass for London, and the suburbs thereof Shewing the causes, nature and efficacy of the present plagues; and the most hopeful way for healing. With an humble witness against the cruel advice and practice of shutting-up unto oppression. Both now and formerly experienced to encrease, rather than prevent the spreading thereof. / By J.V. grieved by the poor, who perish daily hereby. date: 1665.0 words: 9364 flesch: 70 summary: GOLGOTHA : OR , A Looking-Glass for London , &c. WHoever would administer to the Cure , must first consider the Cause and Nature of any Visitation , and especially reverence any light given from God , who hath been pleased above all to appropriate this of the Pestilence as his imediate Sword : and hath acquainted the sons of men , as with the Causes , so with the dreadful Efficacy and Nature thereof , Ezek. In speaking to the Cure , I shall first shew what is not likely to effect it ; 2dly , What is ; and lastly , giving those that have worthily gone before me , their real due in the prescript of outward Medicines , I shall cast in my Mite of that sort also , in addition only to any thing I have seen , without detraction from any , or seeking gain , or the honour which is from men , I trust , but that which is of God only . keywords: advice; cure; ezek; fear; god; hath; israel; lord; men; psal; spirit; tcp; text; use; way cache: A65193.xml plain text: A65193.txt item: #93 of 105 id: A65601 author: Wharton, Thomas, 1614-1673. title: Directions for the prevention and cure of the plague Fitted for the poorer sort. date: 1665.0 words: 2701 flesch: 65 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A65601) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 37704) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2162:4) Directions for the prevention and cure of the plague Fitted for the poorer sort. Wharton, Thomas, 1614-1673. keywords: eebo; english; half; ounce; plague; tcp; text cache: A65601.xml plain text: A65601.txt item: #94 of 105 id: A66760 author: Wither, George, 1588-1667. title: A memorandum to London occasioned by the pestilence there begun this present year MDCLXV, and humbly offered to the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and commonality of the said city / by George Wither ; thereto is by him added, a warning-piece to London, discharged out of a loophole in the tower, upon meditating the deplorable fier, which consumed the house of an eminent citizen, with all the persons and goods therein, at the beginning of most joyful festival in December 1662 ; also, a single sacrifice offered to almighty God, by the same author in his lonely confinement, for prevention of the dearth-feared, and probably portended, by immoderate raines in June and July, 1663, morever, in regard may have reported and believed this author to be dead, we have annexed his epitaph, made by himself upon that occasion. date: 1665.0 words: 19720 flesch: 65 summary: Your City , I have lov'd and honored , And , no less now , then heretofore I did , For , GOD hath made it , the most honour'd place That is within these Isles , or ever was ; He hath inrolled , and renown'd her Name Among the Cities of the greatest Fame , That either are , or were below the Sun Since men to dwell in Cities first begun . But , when that Hipocrites , by lying hid As Annanias and Saphira did , ( Till GOD discover'd them ) may possibly Obscure the grouth of Infant Piety ; When they , who Truths foundations overthrow , When , her malitious persecutors , grow So mighty , that the Saints unable are To calm them , or their furious rage to bear ; Or , when Prophaness and Abhominations Like Sodoms , wholly hath corrupted Nations Or Cities , till there shall appear in men Nor will nor power , them to reclaim agen ; GOD , in such cases , to himself alone Assumes the punnishing of what 's misdone And very frequently doth punish too , In such a mode as mortals cannot do : keywords: city; day; doth; ev'n; ev'ry; fear; god; good; grace; hast; hath; heed; know; lord; love; men; self; sin; thee; things; thou; thy; time; work; world; yea cache: A66760.xml plain text: A66760.txt item: #95 of 105 id: A67370 author: J. W. title: A friendly letter to the flying clergy wherein is humbly requested and modestly challenged the cause of their flight. By J. W. priest. date: 1665.0 words: 2322 flesch: 66 summary: eng Church work with the sick -- England -- Early works to 1800. Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: cause; eebo; english; flight; tcp; text cache: A67370.xml plain text: A67370.txt item: #96 of 105 id: A69177 author: Davies, John, 1565?-1618. title: Humours heau'n on earth with the ciuile warres of death and fortune. As also the triumph of death: or, the picture of the plague, according to the life; as it was in anno Domini. 1603. / By Iohn Dauies of Hereford. date: 1609.0 words: 37180 flesch: 82 summary: So , might ye see ( deere Heart ) some lustie Lad Strooke with the Plague , to hie him to the field , Where in some Brake , or * Ditch ( of either glad ) With plesure , in great pain● , the ghost doth yield ! Each Village , free , now stands vpon her guard ; None must haue harbour in them but their owne : And as for life and death all watch , and ward , And flie for life ( as Death ) the man vnknowne ! A Pierc-ey , or a pi●rcing Eie doth sh●w Both Wit and Courage ; and , if thou wilt learne By morall Tales sinnes mortall to eschew , Thou shalt be wise , and endlesse glorie earne : That so thou mai'st , the meanest Tutors praise ; So , Percies fame shall pierce the Eie of Daies : Then , by those Raies my Pen ( inflam'd ) shall runn● Beyond the Moone , to make thy Moone a Sunne ! keywords: aire; breath; chronus; dead; death; deere; die; doe; doth; earth; ere; euer; feare; flesh; fortune; giue; god; good; grace; hand; hath; haue; heau'n; hell; hold; house; ill; ioy; life; like; liue; logus; loue; man; men; nature; nought; oft; paine; phusis; place; plagues; quoth; reason; selfe; sense; sinne; sith; sonnes; soules; thee; themselues; thē; thogh; thou; thy; time; truth; vnto; vpon; vse; way; world; ● ● cache: A69177.xml plain text: A69177.txt item: #97 of 105 id: A70032 author: England and Wales. title: By the Lords and others His Majesties commissioners an order for the observance and execution of the statute made for the reliefe and ordering of persons infected with the plague. date: 1644.0 words: 1315 flesch: 63 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A70032 of text R41852 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E928). 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A70032) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 109251) keywords: majesties; oxford; persons; text cache: A70032.xml plain text: A70032.txt item: #98 of 105 id: A70159 author: Gatford, Lionel, d. 1665. title: [Logos alexipharmakos] or, Hyperphysicall directions in time of plague collected out of the sole-authentick dispensatory of the chief physitian both of soule and body, and, disposed more particularly, though not without some alteration and addition, according to the method of those physicall directions printed by command of the Lords of the Counsell at Oxford 1644 and very requisite to be used with them : also, certain aphorismes, premised, and conclusions from them deduced, concerning the plague, necesiary to be knovvn and observed of all, that would either prevent it, or get it cured / by Lionell Gatford ... date: 1644.0 words: 16836 flesch: 89 summary: Go not forth early in the morning : to be sure , not before thou have offered up thy morning sacrifice of prayer and praise to God t , both in thy Closet u , and with thy family , if thou hast any x . Be content with such food as God sends thee u , and lust not for other x : tast not of meat that hath bloud in it z ; and if thou come where dainties are , and be a man given to appetite , put thy knife to thy throat ; and desire them not a . keywords: cap; cor; god; good; john; plague; prov; psal; rom; thee; thou; thy cache: A70159.xml plain text: A70159.txt item: #99 of 105 id: A83885 author: England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords. title: Certain orders thought meet to be put in execution against the infection of the plague. date: 1641.0 words: 975 flesch: 73 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A83885 of text R209694 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.3[16]). Certain orders thought meet to be put in execution against the infection of the plague. keywords: house; plague; text cache: A83885.xml plain text: A83885.txt item: #100 of 105 id: A83886 author: England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords. title: Certain orders thought meet to be put in execution against the infection of the plague date: 1646.0 words: 955 flesch: 74 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A83886 of text R212304 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.9[67]). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 161165) keywords: house; plague; text cache: A83886.xml plain text: A83886.txt item: #101 of 105 id: A83936 author: England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell) title: Thursday the thirteenth of August, 1657. At the Council at VVhite-hall. His Highness the Lord Protector and his Privy Council, taking notice of the hand of God, which at this time is gone out against this nation, in the present visitation by sickness that is much spread over the land, ... date: 1657.0 words: 756 flesch: 72 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A83936 of text R212053 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.20[62]). Title from caption and first lines of text. keywords: council; lord; protector cache: A83936.xml plain text: A83936.txt item: #102 of 105 id: B03004 author: Edinburgh (Scotland). Town Council. title: Edinburgh, the 19. day of July, 1665. Forsameikle, as the provost, bailies, and council of this Burgh, taking to their consideration the proclamation ... prohibiting and discharging all trade and commerce betwixt this kingdom ... and places of the kingdome of England which are infected or suspected to be infected wth the sicknesse, or plague of pestilence... date: 1665.0 words: 1271 flesch: 59 summary: (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B03004) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179415) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: council; eebo; tcp; text cache: B03004.xml plain text: B03004.txt item: #103 of 105 id: B04961 author: Quarles, John, 1624-1665. title: Londons disease, and cure: being a soveraigne receipt against the plague, for prevention sake. / By John Qvarles, philo-medicus. date: 1665.0 words: 1698 flesch: 66 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B04961) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182791) keywords: disease; eebo; english; tcp; text cache: B04961.xml plain text: B04961.txt item: #104 of 105 id: B05593 author: Scotland. Privy Council. title: Proclamation, discharging trade and commerce with the city of London, and other places of the Kingdom of England, suspected of the plague. At Edinburgh, the twenty one of December, one thousand six hundred sixty five. date: 1665.0 words: 1335 flesch: 62 summary: (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05593) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179625) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text cache: B05593.xml plain text: B05593.txt item: #105 of 105 id: B05599 author: Scotland. Privy Council. title: A proclamation, for a publick general fast throughout the kingdom of Scotland. At Edinburgh, the eight day of August, one thousand six hundred and sixty five years. date: 1665.0 words: 1325 flesch: 62 summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). Royal arms at head of text; initial letter. keywords: eebo; kingdom; tcp; text cache: B05599.xml plain text: B05599.txt