Herod
, that he very hardly refrained from striking her; when in the Heat of their Quarrel there came in a Witness, suborn'd by some of
Mariamne's
Enemies, who accused her to the King of a Design to poison him.
Herod
was now prepared to hear any thing in her Prejudice, and immediately ordered her Servant to be stretch'd upon the Rack;
in the Extremity of his Tortures confest, that his Mistress's Aversion to the King arose from
something