<span> He is not well-liked, to say the very least</span>
Moderate means D- to take on a serious mode.
The writer used the word 'moderate' to make a comparison between those people who would lead a serious life without any excess with the group of people who would do whatever they wanted to fight against the Black Death.
Stanza
A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit; a division of a poem that is often referred to as a " paragraph of poetry".
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