MALADRERIE

MALADRERIE, s. f. (Police.) hôpital public de malades, & particulierement de lépreux :

A sad, noizom place, wherein are laid Numbers of all diseas’d of all maladies ! Dire is the tossing, deep the groans ; despair Tends the sick, busy from couch to couch ; And over them, triumphant death his dart Shakes, but delays to strike, thó oft invok’d With vows, as theirs chief good, and final hope. A sad, noizom place, wherein are laid Numbers of all diseas’d of all maladies ! Dire is the tossing, deep the groans ; despair Tends the sick, busy from couch to couch ; And over them, triumphant death his dart Shakes, but delays to strike, thó oft invok’d With vows, as theirs chief good, and final hope.

C’est la peinture qu’en fait le célebre Milton, voyez Infirmerie, Léproserie.