plague soren.

1580 in J. C. Tingey Rec. City of Norwich (1910) II. 190 Allso that noe person wthin this cytie, the liberties or suburbes of the same, nowe havinge or that shall haue anye plague sore upon them shall come abroade into anye streete, market, shoppe, or open place of resorte.

1589 J. Rider Bibliotheca Scholastica 1099 Plague soares, carbunculantia vlcera.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 382 Thou art a bile, A plague sore, an imbossed carbuncle in my Corrupted bloud. View more context for this quotation

1629 H. Burton Truth's Triumph 358 Apply the lumpe of dry figgs to the plague-sore.

1667 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue (rev. ed.) I. i. ix. 95 Blasphemies and such like soul-infecting and destroying Plague-sores.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Pestilential Bubo, a Plague-sore, or Botch.

1740 Present for Apprentice 17 If you should be entrusted with the Custody of your Master's Cash, look on it as a Plague-Sore, that, but touch'd, would be your utter ruin.

1823 C. Lamb New Year's Eve in Elia 68 Death... That capital plague-sore.

1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad xvi. 148 St. Rochus sitting in a landscape with an angel who looks at his plague-sore.

1979 Rev. Eng. Stud. 30 355 The book, finally, has..the very occasional linguistic plague-sore (‘nearly preconscious oppugnancy’).

1992 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 4 Sept. 20/2 Napoleon visits his sick and dying soldiers at a hospital, touching the plague sores of one awe-struck man who stares as if Napoleon were able to cure him.