""This collection of early modern writing related to the bubonic plague includes remedies, literature, orders, prayers, and a bill -- each modernized and annotated "
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Good Hous-wives Treasurie by 
A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, called The Metamorphosis of Ajax by 
The Plague in Print: Essential Elizabethan Sources, 1558-1603
