He did withal bring a kind of malediction and infausting upon the marriage, as an ill prognostic...

The body's somthing noysome: 'tis a stale one; / Good troth it spurgeth very monstrously.

To prevent the full-blown development of drapetomania, exhibited by the actual running away of the slave, whipping is recommended as medical therapy; in a revealing allusion to its historical origins, the treatment is called whipping the devil out of them.

Neither diamond-hardness nor airy intangibility can save you from this, the searing agony of death!