of the Plague in y y 8cc. 17 never to be waked but by the laft Trumpet • ibme lie vomiting as if they had drank Poifon • and others fall dead in the Market, while they are buying NecefTaries for the Sup- port of Life. Not much unlike it was the following Conflagration ^ where the Altars theVnfelves became fb many Victims, and -the fineft Churches in the whole World carried ifp to Heaven Supplications in Flames, while their Marble Pillars, wet with Tears, melted like Wax •, nor were Monuments fecure from the inexorable Flames, where many of their venerable Remains parTed a fecond Martyrdom ; the moft auguft Palaces were foon laid Wafre, and the Flames feemed to be in a fatal Engagement to deftroy the great Ornament of Commerce j and the Burning of all th.Q Commodities of the World together, feem- ed a proper Epitome of this Conflagration ^ neither confederate Crowns, nor the drawn Swords of Kings, could retrain its Pha- natick and Rebellious Rage *, large Halls, lately Houfes, and the Sheds of the Poor, were together reduced to Aihes •, the Sim blum'd to fee himfelf fet, and env'ed thofe Flames the Government of the Night, which had rivalled him fo many Days ' 7 C as
