To add, you perceive, to her back a new curve.
The full extra curve produced by the pain,
Brought strangely the smiles to her features again;
She cried, “Oh! kind Providence surely did send
This spasm to give me the ‘true Grecian bend!’
“The ‘true Grecian bend!’ here, here is a name
Which soon will acquire a most glorious fame!
It hides my poor hump altogether, you see,
And a leader of fashion again I will be!”
Since the colic referred to, by Providence sent,