He wove a hundred (fathom) seine — stitched one of a thousand (fathoms)
During a single summer night, in the interval between two days.
xxix. — The Origin of Ague.
I well know ague's genesis, I guess the villain's origin.
Ague was rocked by wind — was put to sleep by chilly air.
Brought by wind, by water drawn, brought forward by hard weather,
Came in the whirlwind of a storm — in the sleigh-tracks of a cold wind
Against us wretched sufferers, against poor unfortunates.
xxx. — The Origin of Cancer.
A furious [v. iron-toothed] old woman,
That moves along with the wind, with the water, with all the fish,
Carried a heavy womb — a belly full of suffering
For thirty summers, for the same number of winters.
Finally she got a malignant boy, an eater of flesh, a biter of bones.
She fashioned him into a cancer.
She reared her boy, she protected her offspring
In bloody clothing, in gory garments.
Then she sent him away to devour, to gnaw.
To lacerate a Christian, to destroy a baptised one.
To cause his flesh to rot, and to gnaw his bones.
xxxi— The Origin of Colic (Gripes).
(a.)
Colic a groaning boy, a second an aggravating boy,
2 A third like a pole.
Are not made of what is good — not of anything exactly valuable.
They are made of swamp — made out of earth,
