'Ague and lake fever had attacked our new settlement. The men in the shanty were all down with it, and my husband was confined to his bed on each alternate day, unable to raise hand or foot, and raving in the delirium of the fever.'

'Twere hard to say who fared the best:
Sad mortals! thus the Gods still plague you!
He lost his labour, I my jest:
For he was drowned, and I've the ague

November 23, 1698, John Dryden, letter to Mrs Stewart
I 'scap'd with one cold fit of an ague

Where I'm from, people have learned that mosquitoes carry ague.

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