“From winter, plague, & pestilence, good Lord, deliver us.”

—  Thomas Nashe

Source: Summer's Last Will and Testament http://www.elizabethanauthors.com/summ1.htm (1600), line 1878.

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English Elizabethan pamphleteer and poet 1567–1601

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