Peter Ackroyd Quote
As the Houses tumbled upon the Streets with a great roaring Noise, they cryed out We are undone! We are great Sinners! and the like: and yet as soon as the Danger was passed, they came back with their:Hey ho the Devil is Dead!Eat, drink, and go merry to Bed!Thus the Sick confesse to their Contagion only when they are like to Die of it, even tho' they carry their Death with them every where.
Peter Ackroyd
As the Houses tumbled upon the Streets with a great roaring Noise, they cryed out We are undone! We are great Sinners! and the like: and yet as soon as the Danger was passed, they came back with their:Hey ho the Devil is Dead!Eat, drink, and go merry to Bed!Thus the Sick confesse to their Contagion only when they are like to Die of it, even tho' they carry their Death with them every where.
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