My mission is not to terrify, but to warn.

Why will ye thus continue impenitent when ye are spoken to, not by my voice alone, but by a thousand others ?--by the thunder--by the rain--by the pestilence!--and ye shall be spoken to, if ye continue senseless, by fire and by famine.

Look at these quenched embers--at these flooded streets--they are types of your vain struggle with a superior power.

Now, mark me what you must do to free the city from contagion.

You must utterly and for ever abandon your evil courses.