Note 67 — PART I.
Reading edition
In a passage breathing the very spirit and prejudices of the middle ages, Mezeray states that during all the twelfth century, two very cruel evils (deux maux tres cruels) reigned in France, viz. leprosy and usury; one of which (he adds) infected the body, while the other ruined families.—Histoire de France, tom. ii. p. 169.