Said, Lord have mercy on us is not there.

[115] Houses visited by the plague were marked by a cross chalked on the door, and also the words, "Lord have mercy on us."

[72.]A Man there was, who liv'd a merry life,

Till in the end he tooke him to a Wife;

One that no image was (for shee could speake)

And now and then her husbands costrell[116] breake:

So fierce she was and furious, as in summe,

She was an arrant Devill of her tongue.

This drove the poore man to a discontent,

And oft, and many times did he repent