STORY THE FIFTY-FIFTH — A CURE FOR THE PLAGUE.
By Monseigneur De Villiers.
Of a girl who was ill of the plague and caused the death of three men who lay with her, and how the fourth was saved, and she also.
In the year of the pardons of Rome (*) just past, the plague was so great and terrible in Dauphiné, that the greater part of the better-class people left the country.
(*) The great Jubilee of 1450.
At that time a fair, young damsel felt herself stricken with the malady, and at once repaired to a neighbour, a woman of good condition, and rather old, and related her piteous condition.