one o'clock in the morning
I was indeed shocked with this sight ; it almost overwhelmed me , and I went away with my heart most afflicted , and full of the afflicting thoughts , such as I can not describe just at my going out of the church , and turning up the street towards my own house , I saw another cart with links , and a bellman going before , coming out of Harrow Alley in the Butcher Row , on the other side of the way , and being , as I perceived , very full of dead bodies , it went directly over the street also toward the church . I stood a while , but I had no stomach to go back again to see the same dismal scene over again , so I went directly home , where I could not but consider with thankfulness the risk I had run , believing I had gotten no injury , as indeed I had not . Here the poor unhappy gentleman 's grief came into my head again , and indeed I could not but shed tears in the reflection upon it , perhaps more than he did himself ; but his case lay so heavy upon my mind that I could not prevail with myself , but that I must go out again into the street , and go to the Pie Tavern , resolving to inquire what became of him . It was by this time one o'clock in the morning , and yet the poor gentleman was there . The truth was , the people of the house , knowing him , had entertained him , and kept him there all the night , notwithstanding the danger of being infected by him , though it appeared the man was perfectly sound himself . It is with regret that I take notice of this tavern . The people were civil , mannerly , and an obliging sort of folks enough , and had till this time kept their house open and their trade going on , though not so very publicly as formerly : but there was a dreadful set of fellows that used their house , and who , in the middle of all this horror , met there every night , behaved with all the revelling and roaring extravagances as is usual for such people to do at other times , and , indeed , to such an offensive degree that the very master and mistress of the house grew first ashamed and then terrified at them .