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Ut you goe forward in your complaints, and speak of the plague and Famine, of Taxes and Rapines. Will you then that we proceed with each of these in our comparison, though briefly. Tell me in these five or six years, how many thousands, hath this plague snatched away in all Belgia? As I guess fifty or at the most one hundred thousand. But in Iudæa a single plague in the reign of King David, swept away seventy thousand in less than a day. When Gallus and Volusianus were Emperours, a plague beginning in Æthiopia passed through all the Roman Provinces; Rh