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   A Litany in Time of Plague. Thomas Nashe. Adieu, farewell, earth’s bliss; This world uncertain is; Fond are life’s lustful joys; Death proves them all but toys; None from his darts can fly; I am sick, I must die. Lord, have mercy on us!

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   Jul 6, 2020 · Thomas Nashe. Shakespeare may well have written King Lear in quarantine during one of early modern London’s periodic bouts with plague, but the most powerful depiction of illness written in Elizabethan London was a lyric poem by the urban pamphleteer and stylistic experimentalist Thomas Nashe.

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   In Time of Plague [Adieu, farewell, earth’s bliss] By Thomas Nashe. Adieu, farewell, earth’s bliss; This world uncertain is; Fond are life’s lustful joys; Death proves them all but toys; None from his darts can fly; I am sick, I must die. Lord, have mercy on us!

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   Thomas Nashe. A Litany in Time of Plague. Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1600. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. Download PDF. Access Full Guide. Generate discussion. questions about this title!

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   10 MAY 2022. A Litany in Time of Plague - Premiere. UCLA. Los Angeles, CA. It is astonishing how aptly these lines of Thomas Nashe, composed over 400 years ago, speak to the condition of humanity in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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   Who wrote a litany in time of plague?

   • “A Litany in Time of Plague” was written by the English playwright, pamphleteer, satirist, and poet Thomas Nashe. The poem first appeared within Nashe’s comedic play Summer’s Last Will and Testament (1600) but it has since been recognized as its own distinct work independent of its origin.

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   • “I am sick,” says the sick body. “I must die,” admits the sickened soul. The half-dozen stanzas of this poem, usually anthologized as "A Litany in a Time of Plague," were written as part of Nashe's only single-authored play, Summer's Last Will and Testament.

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   How does a litany in time of plague start?

   • “A Litany in Time of Plague” opens with the speaker bidding the earth and its “bliss” (Line 1) farewell, as he realizes that everything about life is “uncertain” (Line 2), except for its end.

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   What does Nashe say in the first stanza?

   • From the first lines, Nashe sets the tone for a serious meditation on death and the transience of life. Within the first stanza, the speaker also introduces the personified figure of Death, whose ominous presence looms throughout the poem. Death’s “darts” (Line 5) or arrows come for everyone, and no one can “fly” from or escape them.

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    A Litany in Time of Plague. A DIEU, farewell, earth's bliss; This world uncertain is; Fond are life's lustful joys; Death proves them all but toys; I am sick, I must die. Lord, have mercy on us! Rich men, trust not wealth, Gold cannot buy you health;