Than what she gave in buying what she sold:
She failed and sadden’d knowing it; and thus,
Expectant of that news which never came,
Gain’d for her own a scanty sustenance,
And lived a life of silent melancholy. 260
Now the third child was sickly-born and grew
Yet sicklier, tho’ the mother cared for it
With all a mother’s care: nevertheless,
Whether her business often called her from it,
Or thro’ the want of what it needed most, 265