They are at the same time presented with two shillings and six-pence towards paying the midwife.

But yet forgive me this one thing; for my mother bare me, as you know, a man-midwife, after her own trade, and not a sage.

When my first child was born, I begged the midwife not to cut me open to get the baby out.

I had brought a midwife from Grenoble who never moved from the farm.

Having thus removed her scruples, she called the midwife, and directed her to destroy one of the infants, and to declare that one only had been born.

Post-chaises and hackney-coaches were unknown, their places being supplied by three or four old sedan-chairs, which did a brisk business in carrying midwives about in the night, and old ladies to church and the dancing-assemblies.

"Many men," saith Gellius, "are very conceited in their inscriptions," "and able" (as Pliny quotes out of Seneca) "to make him loiter by the way that went in haste to fetch a midwife for his daughter, now ready to lie down."

The former, with a "black doctor" named Will Morris at its head, included a midwife, two nurses for the hospital, four (one of them blind) for the new negroes, two for the children in the day nursery, and one for the suckling babies of the women in the gangs.

I am with child, big, hugely swoll'n with rage, Who'll play the midwife, and my throbs assuage? KING.

Thus one legend relates that Joseph went to seek a midwife, and met a woman coming down from the mountains, with whom he returned to the stable.

"Hast thou any wish unfulfilled?" asks the midwife.

Close to the shrine sits a midwife keeping guard over a new gauze cloth, a sari and a bodice, purchased for the spirit of Chandrabai; and on a plate close at hand are vermilion for her brow, antimony for her eyes, a nose-ring, a comb, bangles and sweetmeats, such as she liked during her life-time.