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"If the King's grace please, it did appear upon the trial that this man
entered into a house in the hamlet of Islington where one lay sick--three
witnesses say it was at ten of the clock in the morning, and two say it
was some minutes later--the sick man being alone at the time, and
sleeping--and presently the man came forth again and went his way. The
sick man died within the hour, being torn with spasms and retchings."
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Did any see the poison given? Was poison found?"
Marry, no, my liege."
Then how doth one know there was poison given at all?"
Please your Majesty, the doctors testified that none die with such
symptoms but by poison."
Weighty evidence, this, in that simple age. Tom recognised its
formidable nature, and said--
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The doctor knoweth his trade--belike they were right. The matter hath
an ill-look for this poor man."
"Yet was not this all, your Majesty; there is more and worse. Many
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