Two sailors, having gotten drunk in a tavern and not paying for the drink, flee. In a drunken frenzy, they climb over the fence of the outpost, which fences off the deserted plague quarters from the healthy part of London. Escaping, the sailors end up in the undertaker's shop, where King Plague the First himself sits at the table with his queen and retinue. Others would die of fear, but the drunken sea is knee-deep...