Song of the Plague: Chowles the coffin maker, top centre, drinking a toast to a long life for the plague so that he will become rich. Plague of London, 1665. Illustration by John Franklin () for William Harrison Ainsworth "Old Saint Paul's", London 1855 (first published 1841). Engraving

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