By a Shocking and Barbarous Murder.

CCCXII.

But spite of hint, and threat, and scoff,

The Leg kept its situation:

For legs are not to be taken off

By a verbal amputation.

And mortals when they take a whim,

The greater the folly the stiffer the limb

That stand upon it or by it—

So the Countess, then Miss Kilmansegg,