So down, with my heart full of trouble, to the lieutenant of the tower, who tells me that it begun this morning in the king's baker's house in pudding lane, and that it hath burned down st. magnus's church and most part of fish street already. so i down to the waterside and there got a boat and through bridge, and there saw a lamentable fire. poor michell's house, as far as the old swan, already burned that way and the fire running further, that in a very little time it got as far as the steelyard while i was there. everybody endeavoring to remove their goods, and flinging into the river or bringing them into lighters that lay off. poor people staying in their houses as long as till the very fire touched them, and then running into boats or clambering from one pair of stair by the waterside to another. and among other things, the poor pigeons i perceive were loath to leave their houses, but hovered about the windows and balconies till they were some of them burned, their wings, and fell down. which of these is nearest in meaning to the word loth, as it is used in the passage above?