Let me go forth also to tend the sick.

If our neighbour can dare to let his only child do this thing, surely thou wilt spare me.

Every day brings terrible tales of the woe and the pressing need of hundreds and thousands around us.

Let me go, too.

I am like to be safer than many, seeing that I may already have been touched by the distemper, though I knew it not." The example of his neighbour was not without effect upon the worthy citizen.