Which line best helps develop the
central idea that the plague was a very deadly disease?
O "Elizabethans do not understand infection and contagion as
we do."
• "In 1565 the people of Bristol count up the plague victims for that year and arrive at the at figure of 2,070 . . ."
"This last epidemic originates in Portugal and is brought to Devon by mariners."
is O "It is ironic that the great
naval ships that deliver the English from the Spanish threat bring another danger . ..