lying-in-women

Updated: August 26, 2026

And lying-in-women into the bargain; and women far gone with child, who were afraid of miscarrying under the gibbet; and young mothers, who thought the sight might do them a mischief, and mark the gallows upon the foreheads of their unborn babes poor poets, without a shoe, because their only pair had been sent to the cobbler to mend and other such vermin, not worth the trouble of mentioning.

Friedrich Schiller - The Works of Frederich Schiller