And it was in just one of these accessions of strength, (which after all, I count only as seductive illusions,) that I found myself with pen and paper, bewriting page after page — sketching men and scenes that I thought you would be glad to see, …

Lay, lady, lay. / Lay across my big brass bed.

As Jellett's textbook instructed them, sapraemia resulted from 'poisons' formed 'during the putrefaction or decomposition of dead animal matter', in this case blood clots or parts of the placenta left behind in the uterus.

[…] Who, when he encounters an over-filled guest, / Either staggering homewards or taking his rest, / Sees him safe to his bug-walk […]