And kept with strict regard the bound’ry lines;
Such then was Andrew’s alternating work,
With his kind niece at home as medium clerk.
Though now the poor old man had grown infirm
From partial palsy in his dexter[208] arm,
And sometimes suffer’d almost martyrdom
With the lumbago in his back and loins,
And painful visitations in his groins;
So that a few years more like this, distress’d,
Must of necessity send him to rest.