more tollerable. But wheras the one are too rashe and carelesse, & the other contrariwise too feareful, there Sathan easily at his plea∣sure tosseth all thinges vp side down, and the misery doeth so farre daylie increase, that at the length there is a pitiful plight of ye whole citie.Miseries that happen in the time of a com∣mon Plague. For traffick waxeth cold, there groweth a dearth of al things, the Churche assemblies cease, charity is in ieopardy, al things are su∣spected, & as the Poet saith, The wandring guest doth stand in dāger of his host, the host in daunger of his guest, & fathers of their sonne in lawes, yea seldom time do∣eth rest betweene borne brothers suche accorde and loue as ought to be. Due ho∣nor is giuen neither vnto the magistrate, nor vnto parents, al discipline is neglected. No∣thing but trembling, despaire, crying of yōg children, a noyse of women, weeping, mour∣ning, sorow, feare, dying of families, falsifi∣ing or staying of testaments and willes, con∣fusion of inheritaunces, wasting of the Citie, decay of the common wealth, & to conclude, nothing is heard or seene but al kinde of mi∣serie. All which things they ought worthilie to set before their eyes, which doe so little e∣steem of this cause, yt they wil beare nothing, no not for a small time onelie, for the sake 0