. Old Saint Paul's : a tale of the plague and the fire . Ife!it5:-a )^ rn4-a«l ijlji^ ii^nrntua of ^aiut ^Jauif^ H^h OLD SAINT PAULS: A TALE OF THE PLAGUE AND THE FIRE. BY WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH. AUTHOR OF THE TOWER OF LONDON, ETC. A dreadful Plague in London wasIn the year Sixty Five,Which swept an hundred thousand soulsAway, — yet I alive. Defoe. Hittory of the Great Plague of LonJon. Nor could thy fabric, Pauls, defend thee thou wen sacred to thy Makers praise, Though made immortal by a poets song,And poets songs the Theban walls could rai

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. Old Saint Paul's : a tale of the plague and the fire . Ife!it5:-a )^ rn4-a«l ijlji^ ii^nrntua of ^aiut ^Jauif^ H^h OLD SAINT PAULS: A TALE OF THE PLAGUE AND THE FIRE. BY WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH. AUTHOR OF THE TOWER OF LONDON, ETC. A dreadful Plague in London wasIn the year Sixty Five,Which swept an hundred thousand soulsAway, — yet I alive. Defoe. Hittory of the Great Plague of LonJon. Nor could thy fabric, Pauls, defend thee thou wen sacred to thy Makers praise, Though made immortal by a poets song,And poets songs the Theban walls could raise. ■ The daring flames pept in, and saw from far The awful beauties of thy sacred quire :But since it was profaned by Civil War,Heaven thought it fit to have it purged by fire. Drvden. Annus Mirabilit. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN FRANKLIN. IN THREE IIL LONDON: HUGH CUNNINGHAM, SAINT MARTINS PLACE, TRAFALGAR SQUARE. 1841. LONDON: PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY, Bangor House, Shoe Lane. ?^3V. 3 CONTENTS THIRD VOLUME. SEPTEMBER,

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