The taverns are fair full of gadabouts making merry this eve. Though I may press my face against the window like an urchin at a confectioner’s, I am tempted not by the sweetmeats within. A dram in exchange for the pox is an ill bargain indeed. | |
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Samuel Pepys, 1665English diarist, parliamentarian, on the bubonic plague

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