Around the little conduit standing in front of the Old Change, at the western extremity of Cheapside, were three lazars laving their sores in the water; while, in the short space between this spot and Wood-street, Leonard counted upwards of twenty doors marked with the fatal red cross, and bearing upon them the sad inscription, "Lord have mercy upon us!" A few minutes' walking brought them to the grocer's habitation, and on reaching it, they found that Blaize had already descended.

He was capering about the street with joy at his restoration to freedom.
"Mistress Amabel will make her appearance in a few minutes," he said to Leonard.

"Our master is with her, and is getting all ready for her departure.

I have not come unprovided with medicine," he added to Doctor Hodges.

"I have got a bottle of plague-water in one pocket, and a phial of vinegar in the other.