I'll take an umbrella, just in case. [or: ...just in case it rains.]

And if women were themselves to frame the bodies of their children in their wombs, as they 4 often endeavour to mend their shapes when they are out, we should as certainly have no perfect children born, as we have few well-shaped that are strait-laced, or much tampered with.

Undismayed he continued to flail with the broken half of it, denting many a helmet[.]

a dusty carpet