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 bloodletting!”
“May he” ( Obadiah ) “be cursed in all the faculties of his body!
“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 eyebrows, in his cheeks, in his jawbones, 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 toenails!
“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!
“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.⸻