The plague is spread person to person, so if the people are very spread out, fewer of them will come in contact with those afflected by the plague.

The same Irish, use to weare Saffroned Linnen, and Shirts; Which though it were, at first, devised to prevent Vermine, yet, howsoever, I take it, to be very usefull for Lengthening of Life […]

We need to hit pause on this project for now, and switch gears to the next thing.

younger spirits […] whose constancies Expire before their fashions.