Note 30 — Chapter IV · The Sabbat
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For London, see Dr. Johnson’s London (1738):
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, And sign your will before you sup from home.
In 1500 Paolo Capello, the Venetian Ambassador, wrote: “Every night they find in Rome four or five murdered men, Prelates and so forth.” During the reign of Philip IV (1621-1665) the streets of Madrid, noisome, unpaved, were only lit on the occasion of festal illuminations.