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
Sohemus
had told her; but as for any Design of poisoning, he utterly disowned the least Knowledge of it. This Confession quickly proved fatal to