Why not a mother? When I [said 'a mother,']
Methought you saw a serpent: what's in 'mother,'
That you start at it? I say, [I am] your mother;
And put you in the catalogue of those
That were enwombed mine: 'tis often seen
Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds
A native slip to us from foreign [seeds]:
You ne'er oppress'd me with a mother's groan,
Yet I express to you a mother's care:
God's mercy, maiden! does it curd thy blood