[117]. Hoffman Medicin. Rational.
[118]. This story, if we mistake not, suggested to the successful author of Kenilworth, the tragic death of his Alchymist.
[119]. The belief in the possibility of poisoning by the vestments is very ancient, as is shewn by the fabled death of Hercules.
----“Capit inscius heros:
Induiturque humeris Lernææ virus Echidnæ.
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Incaluit vis illa mali; resolutaque flammis;
Herculeos abiit late diffusa per artus.”
Ovid. Metam. Lib. ix. v. 157.