That you were dying when he went away.
Yes! you were ill! of that no doubts remain;
And how explain it?—
C. Oh! I’ll soon explain.
“I sicken’d, say you, when the man was gone—
Could I be well, if sickness would come on? 280
Fact follows fact; but is ‘t of Nature’s laws
That one of course must be the other’s cause?
Just as her husband tried his fav’rite gun,
My cousin brought him forth his first-born son—