Which makes some persons so falter,

They rather would part, without a groan,

With the flesh of their flesh, and bone of their bone,

They obtain'd at St. George's altar.

CIX.

But when it came to fitting the stump

With a proxy limb—then flatly and plump

She spoke, in the spirit olden;

She couldn't—she shouldn't—she wouldn't have wood!

Nor a leg of cork, if she never stood,