“From winter, plague, & pestilence, good Lord, deliver us.”
Thomas Nashe (1567–1601) English Elizabethan pamphleteer and poet
Source: Summer's Last Will and Testament http://www.elizabethanauthors.com/summ1.htm (1600), line 1878.
“From the lightning and the tempest,
O Lord, deliver us.
From the scourge of the earthquake,
O Lord, deliver us.
From plague, famine, and war,
O Lord, deliver us.
From the place of ground zero,
O Lord, deliver us.
From the rain of the cobalt,
O Lord, deliver us.
From the rain of the strontium,
O Lord, deliver us.
From the fall of the cesium,
O Lord, deliver us.
From the curse of the Fallout,
O Lord, deliver us.
From the begetting of monsters,
O Lord, deliver us.
From the curse of the Misborn,
O Lord deliver us.”
Ch 2
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), Fiat Homo
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