Note 26 — PREFACE.
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Borlase asserts that in 1650, ten years before the Restoration, 1700 died of the plague in Dublin alone; this horrible infliction was peculiar to those “picturesque times,” which describe so well, and which, it is a mark of literary loyalty to admire and eulogize.
“Sir, nothing against antiquity, I pray you,
I must not hear ill of antiquity.”—B. Jonson.