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The restraint of liberty to pass in and out of the City ¹took from the Jews all hope of safety, and the famine now increasing, consumed whole households and families, and the houses were full of dead women and infants: and the ²streets filled with the dead bodies of old men: And the young men swollen like dead mens shadows, walked in the market place, and fell down dead where it happened. ⟨p. 165⟩And now the multitude of dead bodies was so great, that they which were alive could not bury them, neither cared they for burying them, being now uncertain what should betide themselves. And many endeavouring to bury others, fell down themselves dead upon them as they were burying them. And many being yet alive, went unto their graves, and there died. Yet for all this calamity was there no weeping nor lamentation, for famine overcame all affections. And they who were yet living, without tears beheld those, who being dead, were now at rest before them. There was no noise heard within the City, and the still night found all full of dead bodies: and which was most miserable of all, the thieves at night came and took away that which covered the dead bodies nakedness, and went laughing away, and in their bodies they proved their swords, and upon pleasure only thrust many through yet breathing. Yet if any have desired them to kill him, or to lend him a sword to kill himself, that so he might escape ³the famine, they denied him.

The restraint of liberty to passe in and out of the City ¹tooke from the Iewes all hope of safety, and the famine now increasing, consumed whole housholds and families, and the houses were full of dead women and infants: and the ²streets filled with the dead bodies of old men: And the young men swollen like dead mens shadowes, walked in the market place, and fell downe dead where it happened. ⟨p. 165⟩