A Journal of the Plague Year Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as Well Public as Private, Which Happened in London During the Last Great Visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London

It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of my neighbours, heard in ordinary discourse that the plague was returned again in Holland.

大约在1664年9月初，我和我的邻居们一样，在日常交谈中听说瘟疫再次在荷兰出现。

We had no such thing as printed newspapers in those days to spread rumours and reports of things, and to improve them by the invention of men, as I have lived to see practised since.

在那些日子里，我们没有像现在这样的印刷报纸来传播谣言和报道，也无法像我后来所见的那样，通过人们的想象来夸大事实。