Chapter

 1 2,3 |     brothers, Philip who died of poison in 1479, and Ascanio who
 2 2,3 |          with the sword and with poison, which he used alternately,
 3 4,5 |     effects of a slow but deadly poison. But whether or not the
 4 5,8 |       had tried on his guest the poison he intended to use so often
 5 8,2 |      nothing; he knew they had a poison like sugar to the taste
 6 8,2 | impossible to discover in food a poison that would kill slowly or
 7 10,2|     there died shortly after, of poison. Prospero Caetano was strangled
 8 10,3|        three or four guests, the poison gliding meanwhile through
 9 12,3|     France, died, it is said, of poison, at Grenoble, at the age
10 13,5|        as before, and he died of poison on the 22nd of February
11 14,1|   inherit from them, had only to poison them: this put him in the
12 14,1|        choice of those he was to poison: the number was fixed at
13 14,1|       the pope's drinking. ~[The poison of the Borgias, say contemporary
14 14,1|           powder and liquid. The poison in the form of powder was
15 14,1|          is unknown. ~The liquid poison was prepared, we are told
16 14,1|        to a boar; as soon as the poison began to take effect, he
17 14,1|     sealed, that made the liquid poison.] ~ ~
18 14,2|         wafer, neither steel nor poison could take hold upon him.
19 14,2|       had themselves prepared to poison their guests. ~Meanwhile
20 14,2|        seized; the effect of the poison had been more rapid than
21 14,2|     overcame the strength of the poison, or maybe, as some say,
22 14,3|     sweating off the effects the poison had wrought; so, though
23 15,3|         Utterly exhausted by the poison, abandoned by his troops,