“May he (_Obadiah_) be damn’d wherever he be----whether in the house or
the stables, the garden or the field, or the highway, or in the path, or
in the wood, or in the water, or in the church. ----May he be cursed in
living, in dying.” [Here my uncle _Toby_, taking the advantage of a
_minim_ in the second bar of his tune, kept whistling one continued note
to the end of the sentence. ----Dr. _Slop_, with his division of curses
moving under him, like a running bass all the way.] “May he be cursed in
eating, and drinking, in being hungry, in being thirsty, in fasting, in
sleeping, in slumbering, in walking, in standing, in sitting, in lying,
in working, in resting, in pissing, in shitting, and in blood-letting!”
i n
Maledictus sit in totis viribus corporis,
“May he” (_Obadiah_) “be cursed in all the faculties of his body!
i n
Maledictus sit intus et exterius.
i n i n i
Maledictus sit in capillis; maledictus sit in cerebro. Maledictus
n
sit in vertice, in temporibus, in fronte, in auriculis, in
superciliis, in oculis, in genis, in maxillis, in naribus, in
dentibus, mordacibus, sive molaribus, in labiis, in guttere, in
humeris, in harnis, in brachiis, in manubus, in digitis, in pectore,
in corde, et in omnibus interioribus stomacho tenus, in renibus,
in inguinibus, in femore, in genitalibus, in coxis, in genubus,
in cruribus, in pedibus, et in inguibus.
“May he be cursed inwardly and outwardly! ------May he be cursed in the
hair of his head! ----May he be cursed in his brains, and in his vertex”
(that is a sad curse, quoth my father), “in his temples, in his
forehead, in his ears, in his eye-brows, in his cheeks, in his
jaw-bones, in his nostrils, in his fore-teeth and grinders, in his lips,
in his throat, in his shoulders, in his wrists, in his arms, in his
hands, in his fingers!
“May he be damn’d in his mouth, in his breast, in his heart and
purtenance, down to the very stomach!
“May he be cursed in his reins, and in his groin” (God in heaven forbid!
quoth my uncle _Toby_), “in his thighs, in his genitals” (my father
shook his head), “and in his hips, and in his knees, his legs, and feet,
and toe-nails!
Maledictus sit in totis compagibus membrorum, a vertice
capitis, usque ad plantam pedis--non sit in eo sanitas.
“May he be cursed in all the joints and articulations of his members,
from the top of his head to the sole of his foot! May there be no
soundness in him!
Maledicat illum Christus Filius Dei vivi toto suæ majestatis
imperio.----
“May the Son of the living God, with all the glory of his Majesty”
----[Here my uncle _Toby_, throwing back his head, gave a monstrous,
long, loud Whew--w--w--------something betwixt the interjectional
whistle of _Hay-day!_ and the word itself.------
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