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Rh To derange the veins, to lap up blood-broth, To eat the substance of the heart, To burrow into the navel, to bore into the navel's root. To rack with pain the spinal bone, To bore through the sides, to lacerate the groin, To cause the eyes to run with tears, to nip the organs of sight, To swell beneath the temples Either of a girl or of a boy.

A brown, scabby crone [v girl, v. lord], the evil mother [v. housefather] of boils, Gave birth to a scabby son, screeched over an ill-tempered one With one foot (F. root), with eight heads, upon a scabby bed, (A son) begotten of a scabby sire Out of a scabby dam — a mother covered with boils. She flung her malignant son Against a human being's skin, at the body (F. body hairs) of a woman's (kapo) son.

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